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Topic: Feb 12th, 2018; Int 3 |
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Mark Karadimos |
Posted: 12-Feb-18 06:06 |
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1) Go to http://www.footballguys.com/shickstandard_1.htm and look at question #3 to answer these questions.
a) What is Stephan Davis’ mean number of running yards?
b) What is Corey Dillon’s mean number of running yards?
c) Based on your answers to (a) and (b) above, who is the best running back?
d) 95% of the time, how many yards will Stephan Davis run?
e) 95% of the time, how many yards will Corey Dillon run?
f) Who is a more consistent running back based on the shape of their bell curves?
g) Based on your answers to (d) and (e), who is the best running back?
2) Go to http://bleacherreport.com/articles/44987-measuring-week-to-week-consi
stency-with-standard-deviation to answer these questions.
a) Which quarterback has the highest Points-Per-Game (PPG)?
b) Which quarterback has the lowest standard deviation?
c) Construct a bell curve for Donovan McNabb and Jay Cutler to three stand deviations.
d) Based on your bell curves, explain using the 68-95-99 rule who the better player is.
3) Go to http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?statisticCategory=PASSING and answer these questions. Once there, don’t click on anything.
a) For the top ten players look at their Yards-Per-Game (Yrds/G). Calculate the mean and standard deviation of this data.
b) Create a bell curve for the mean and standard deviation that you calculated to three standard deviations.
c) Using your bell curve from (b), mark where each of the players are on the curve.
d) List the players that fall within one standard deviation from the mean.
e) Are there players that are not within two standard deviations from the mean? If so, what are their names?
4) Go to http://www.seos-project.eu/modules/classification/images/histogram_fr
eq_dis_dice.jpg and answer these questions.
a) Make the bar graph into a frequency table.
Dice Event Frequency (Count of Events)
b) Using the frequency table you created, determine the mean and standard deviation of the data.
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