Never on sunday: also in canada? exercise 1.5 (page 20) gives the number of birt

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Never on sunday: also in canada? exercise 1.5 (page 20) gives the number of births in the united states on each day of the week during an entire year. the box plots in figure 2.6 are based on more detailed data from toronto, canada: the number of births on each of the 365 days in a year, grouped by day of the week, based on these plots, compare the day-of-the-week distribution using shape, center and variability. summarize your findings.
DAY                                                    BIRTHS
Sunday                                                7,134
Monday                                                11,430
Tuesday                                               12,387
Wednesday                                          12,230
Thursday                                               12,308
Friday                                                   12,047
Saturday                                               8,124

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The most striking result is that there are fewer births on the weekend. There are also slightly fewer births on Mondays than on the other weekdays. The distributions for each day do not have strikingly different spreads, although Wednesdays are somewhat more spread out than the other days ( judging by the interquartile ranges ). Most of the daily distributions are reasonably symmetric. The general patterns are similar in the US and Toronto, but of course there are many more births in the US than in Toronto.

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