Answer to Question #150502 in Economics of Enterprise for risha

Question

The accompanying table shows a portion of the number of cases of crime related to gambling (Gambling) and offenses against the family and children (Family Abuse) for the 50 states in the United States during 2010.

Answer 1

The accompanying table shows a portion of the number of cases of crime related to gambling (Gambling) and offenses against the family and children (Family Abuse) for the 50 states in the United States during 2010. Source: www.fbi.gov

Construct a box plot for gambling and use it to identify outliers, if any.

A data set contains n=50 values for the number of crimes related to gambling in the U.S. in 2010. The mean number of offenses 158.34, the median is 25, and the standard deviation is 446.68. Construct a boxplot of the data to determine if there are any outliers in the data. A boxplot consists of a box with edges Q1 and Q3, which are the 25th and 75th percentiles of the data. A line is drawn within the box to represent the median. The whiskers of the box are lines that extend from the box to the minimum and maximum values in the data set. If any value is greater than 1.5 times the inner-quartile range, the value is marked as an outlier.

Construct the boxplot for the number of crimes related to gambling data.

From the boxplot, there are multiple outliers in the number of crimes related to gambling data.