Compare the three distributions that describe the percentage
Compare the three distributions that describe the percentages of people who have access to health services, safe water, and sanitation.
Using your calculator or Excel, calculate the One Variable Statistics and record the information below.
Health Services
Safe Water
Sanitation
Mean
70.15
59.55
49.35
Standard deviation
25.01133
23.33474
27.61043
Five-number summary
27
12
5
44.5
46.5
23.25
76
57
47.5
90
76.75
70
100
100
98
1. Which of the three categories has the greatest need for overall improvement? Why? Use your findings above to discuss your answer.
| Compare the three distributions that describe the percentages of people who have access to health services, safe water, and sanitation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Using your calculator or Excel, calculate the One Variable Statistics and record the information below. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1. Which of the three categories has the greatest need for overall improvement? Why? Use your findings above to discuss your answer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Solution
1.
Category :Health Services
Becuase its mean is significnatly lower than its median which shows either distribution has heavily sked to left or have low outliers.

