A personnel manager of a large manufacturing plant is investigating the number of reported on-the-job accidents at

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A personnel manager of a large manufacturing plant is investigating the number of reported on-the-job accidents at the facility over the past several years. Let X be the number of such accidents reported during a one-month period. Based on past records, the manager has established the probability distribution for X as shown in the file S04_19.xlsx.
a. Use simulation to generate 1000 values of this random variable X.
b. Is the simulated distribution indicative of the given probability distribution? Explain why or why not.

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Data Analysis and Decision Making

ISBN: 978-0538476126

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Authors: Christian Albright, Wayne Winston, Christopher Zappe

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