Smoking and Gender Narrative

question 22

Essay

Smoking and Gender Narrative
An experiment can result in one or both of events A = Smoker and B = Female, with the joint probabilities shown in the table below. A person is selected at random.
-Refer to Smoking and Gender Narrative. Are smoking and gender of the person independent events? Explain.

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a data set, which separates the higher half from the lower half of the data.

Extreme Values

The smallest or largest values in a data set or distribution, often considered as outliers or as significant for their rarity.

Variation

Variation refers to the extent to which data points in a data set differ from each other and from the mean of the dataset.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean value.