Frequency Distributions Term Paper

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Frequency Distribution of Rejected Circuit Boards X Week

On the basis of the information provided in Table 1 above the first conclusion to be drawn is in reference to the data's kurtosis or skewness (peaked ness or flatness); i.e., leptokurtic, platykurtic, or mesokurtic. Visual interpretation suggests that there are no areas of flatness or extreme peakedness. Therefore, the distribution of data falls somewhere in between (mesokurtic/normal). As such the assumption can be made that the data is normal but with bi-modal characteristics (i.e., two closely similar high rejection scores; 26 and 24). Extreme caution must be exercised in acceptance of this conclusion, as there is no information as to the ratio of rejected circuit boards to accepted circuit boards.


In support of the data being normally distributed the standard deviation (() of the scores was calculated. The "(" symbol is used as the assumption is being made that the data presented represents the entire number of rejected circuit boards produced rather than a sampling of a greater population. When in doubt the data….....

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