Use the following data a Which measure the mean or the media

Use the following data

a) Which measure, the mean or the median, do you think better represents a typical number of deaths from a hurricane? Why?

b) Based upon the mean and median, do you think that the Female named hurricanes are more deadly? Why? Or why not?

c) Find a 95% confidence interval for the number of death by both female and male named hurricanes.

d) Find a 99% confidence interval for the number of death by both female and male named hurricanes.

e) Compare the CIs of 95% and 99% levels.

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Gender Mean S.D Median
Female 23.76 47.47 5
Male 14.23 21.16 5

Solution

a)

It seems to be the median, becasue the standard deviation is too big (bigger than the mean) here.
[ANSWER, MEDIAN]

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b)

It seems that female hurricances are not that much deadlier, as they have the same median. Apparently, though, there are a few female hurricanes that are very deadly, increasing the mean.

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Hi! For the next parts, please include the sample sizes of the male and female hurricanes (we need that for the calculation), and then please resubmit this question. That way we can continue helping you! Thanks!

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