If We Were to Run the Sequential Search Algorithm Many

question 38

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If we were to run the sequential search algorithm many times, with random input values occurring at various places in the list, we would find the average number of comparisons done to be approximately n /2.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of numbers resulting from sample measurements, which is thought to cover the value of an unidentified population feature.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, showing how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Chi-squared Distribution

A statistical distribution that is used to describe the distribution of a sum of squared random variables, often used in hypothesis testing.

Chi-squared Distribution

A statistical distribution that describes the distribution of the sum of the squares of a set of variables that follow a normal distribution, commonly used in hypothesis testing.