Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB), a semicrystalline polymer that is fully biodegrad

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Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB), a semicrystalline polymer that is fully biodegradable and biocompatible, is obtained from renewable resources. From a sustainability perspective, PHB offers many attractive properties though it is more expensive to produce than standard plastics. The accompanying data on melting point (C for each of 12 specimens of the polymer using a differential scanning calorimeter appeared in an article. 180.6 181.7 180.8 181.6 182.5 181.6 181.3 182.2 182.2 180.4 181.7 180.5 Compute the following. (Round your answers to two decimal places.) (a) the sample range eC (b) the sample variance s2 from the definition [Hint: First subtract 180 from each observation.] (c) the sample standard deviation (d) s2 using the shortcut method

Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

Summary statistics:

Hence,

b) s2 = 0.51

c) s = 0.71

d) s2 = 0.51

Column Variance Std. dev. Data 0.50568182 0.71111308

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