Maximum temperatures by State in the United States for the month of August, 2013
ID: 3217127 • Letter: M
Question
Maximum temperatures by State in the United States for the month of August, 2013 State name Max temperatures AZ 45 CA 49 ND 88 HI 90 MT 90 WI 90 DE 91 MI 91 OH 91 VT 91 WV 91 CT 93 IN 93 KY 93 ME 93 NH 93 NY 93 PA 93 SD 93 WA 93 AL 97 AK 97 ID 97 IL 97 LA 97 MD 97 MA 97 MS 97 MO 97 OR 97 SC 97 GA 99 TN 99 WY 99 AR 100 IA 100 NC 100 FL 102 VA 102 RI 104 TX 104 NM 106 UT 106 NE 108 NJ 108 OK 108 CO 109 MN 109 KS 111 NV 111 1. Explain what an outlier is. Then, if there are any outliers in the Project 1 Data Set, what are they? If there are no outliers, say no outliers 2. Which 4 temperatures in the data set look to be the most questionable or the most unrealistic to you? Explain why you selected these 4 points
Explanation / Answer
Maz Temperatueres
AZ 45 CA 49 ND 88 HI 90 MT 90 WI 90 DE 91 MI 91 OH 91 VT 91 WV 91 CT 93 IN 93 KY 93 ME 93 NH 93 NY 93 PA 93 SD 93 WA 93 AL 97 AK 97 ID 97 IL 97 LA 97 MD 97 MA 97 MS 97 MO 97 OR 97 SC 97 GA 99 TN 99 WY 99 AR 100 IA 100 NC 100 FL 102 VA 102 RI 104 TX 104 NM 106 UT 106 NE 108 NJ 108 OK 108 CO 109 MN 109 KS 111 NV 111
Calculationg the mean we get 93.76
an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. An outlier may be due to variability in the measurement or it may indicate experimental error; the latter are sometimes excluded from the data set.
The ouliers in this data are AZ 45 CA 49
Most inrealistic = AZ 45 CA 49 KS 111 NV 111