Consider the percent of the U.S. population without health insurance coverage. The file P3_76.XLS contains such percentages

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Consider the percent of the U.S. population without health insurance coverage. The file P3_76.XLS contains such percentages by state for both 1994 and 1995. 

a. Describe the distribution of state percentages of Americans without health insurance coverage in 1995. Be sure to employ both measures of central location and dispersion in developing your characterization of this sample. 

b. Compare the 1995 distribution with the corresponding set of percentages taken in 1994. How are these two sets of figures similar? In what ways are they different?

c. Compute a correlation measure for the two given sets of percentages. What does the correlation coefficient tell you in this case?

d. Based on your answers in parts b and ¢ above, what would you expect to find upon analyzing similar data for 1996?

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Managerial Statistics

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