A Few of the Male Students Are Considerably Taller Than

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Essay

A few of the male students are considerably taller than the rest.Describe the effect that these taller males will have on the mean and median of the male distribution.

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Definitions:

Sample Means

The average value of a set of samples, used as an estimate of the population mean in statistical analysis.

Bootstrap

A statistical method that involves drawing repeated samples from a set to estimate a characteristic of the population from which it was drawn.

Standard Error

A statistical term that measures the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population using the sample mean.

Statistic

A numerical measurement or datum derived from a sample of a population, often used in statistical analyses to infer properties about the entire population.