A 3-year endowment insurance policy with the benefits payable at the end of the year of...
estimate the average age at which multiple sclerosis patients were diagnosed with the condition for the first time in a given city. How big should the sample be? Define your procedures for this estimate (if necessary, set your own values of unknown parameters, based on statistical theory). In Table 1 you will find all ages of this patient population. 54 58 56 48 62 59 55 56 60 52 53 61 56 56 53 37 71 62 39 61 54...
Use the 65 scores in table 3.1 and develop grades based on 20% A, 30% B, 40% C, and 10% D. You might find figure 3.1 helpful as you complete this assignment. What are the cutoff scores for the various grades? Table 3.1 48 49 65 VO,max Values 45 50 51 51 48 43 48 41 53 48 45 46 50 51 47 48 47 46 49 49 44 49 45 48 51 48 52 47 44 47 51 46...
NUMBER OF PEOPLE 10.2 10.0 10.1 8.5 10.2 8.2 8 Source: United States Census. 11. In the Sanitary District of Chicago, operating engineers are hired on of a competitive civil-service examination. In 1966, there were 223 appl for 15 jobs. The exam was held on March 12; the test scores are s arranged in increasing order. The height of each bar in the histogram next page) shows the number of people with the correspondin examiners were charged with rigging the...
solvel only E F G H below is pat data 3. A hospital administrator wished to study the relation between patient satisfaction (Y) and patients age (Xi, in years), severity of illness (X2, an index) and anxiety level (X3, an index). The administrator randomly selected 23 patients and collected the data in pat, where larger values of Y, X2 and X3 are, respectively, associated with more satisfaction, increased severity of illness and more anxiety. The data is saved in Moodle2...
3. A 2-year term insurance is issued to (x), with death benefits payable at the end of the year of death. Forj-1,2, the death bene fit for policy year j is bj, bi2 0 Assume bi +b 10, Let Z denote the random variable of the present value of the death bene fit payments Giveni-0,q-0.1 andq-0.3, find the value of b which minimizes Var[Z]
The accompanying computer excel output (please see attachment on Blackboard) provides details of data and analysis on the topic of “patient satisfaction”. A hospital administrator wished to study the relation between patient satisfaction (Y) and patients’ age (X1, in years) , severity of illness (X2), and anxiety level (X3). The output includes a listing of all 46 observations; descriptive statistics for each variable; and, the results of a regression analysis that uses patient satisfaction as the dependent variable, and patient’s...
West Battery Corp. has recently been receiving complaints from retailers that its 9-volt batteries are not lasting as long as other name brands. James West, head of the TQM program at West's Austin plant, believes there is no problem because his batteries have had an average life of 5050 hours, about 10% longer than competitors' models. To raise the lifetime above this level would require a new level of technology not available to West. Nevertheless, he is concerned enough...
Bob is considering purchasing a two-year endowment policy with a $1,000 face amount at the beginning of his 50. The probability of Bob dying between 50 and 51 is 0.00550, and that between 51 and 52 is 0.00611. The annual interest rate is 6 percent. (1) Calculate the net level premium for this two-year endowment policy. (2) Show that this premium is just sufficient to fund benefits over the two years at the assumed interested and mortality rates. (3) Ignoring...
For determining half-lives of radioactive isotopes, it is important to know what the background radiation is in a given detector over a specific period. The following data were taken in a y -ray detection experiment over 98 ten-second intervals: 58 50 57 58 64 63 54 64 59 41 43 56 60 50 46 59 54 60 59 60 67 52 65 63 55 61 68 58 63 36 42 54 58 54 40 60 64 56 61 51 48...
(a). Construct a frequency distribution with the suitable class interval size of marks obtained by 50 students of a class, which are given below: 23, 50, 38, 42, 63, 75, 12, 33, 26, 39, 35, 47, 43, 52, 56, 59, 64, 77, 15, 21, 51, 54, 72, 68, 36, 65, 52, 60, 27, 34, 47, 48, 55, 58, 59, 62, 51, 48, 50, 41, 57, 65, 54, 43, 56, 44, 30, 46, 67, 53 (b). Find the Minimum Value (c)....