Refer to the Figure

question 105

Short Answer

Refer to the figure. The figure presents the data from individuals who have been tested for sickle-cell anemia using allele-specific oligonucleotide hybridization.The solid circles represent hybridization; the lined circles represent lack of hybridization.Which individuals have sickle-cell anemia?

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Definitions:

Bell-Shaped

A bell-shaped curve is a graph of a distribution that resembles the shape of a bell, typically representing a normal distribution in which the bulk of the values lie towards the center and taper off symmetrically towards the extremes.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of numerical data, indicating how spread out the values are.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, found by dividing the sum of all the numbers by the count of the numbers.

Population Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a population, calculated as the average of the squared deviations from the mean.