TABLE 16-5 the Number of Passengers Arriving at San Francisco on the on the Amtrak

question 39

Essay

TABLE 16-5
The number of passengers arriving at San Francisco on the Amtrak cross-country express on 6 successive Mondays were: 60, 72, 96, 84, 36, and 48.
-Referring to Table 16-5, exponentially smooth the number of arrivals using a smoothing constant of 0.25.

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Definitions:

F-ratios

Used in analysis of variance, it compares the variance between groups to the variance within groups, helping determine statistical significance.

Skewed

A distribution that is not symmetric about its mean, having more values on one side of the center than the other.

Variances

A measure of the dispersion indicating how much the numbers in a data set differ from the mean.

F-ratios

A statistical measure in ANOVA tests used to determine if the variances between groups are significantly different.