Applied Statistics Using SPSS, STATISTICA, MATLAB and R

104 3 Estimating Data Parameters
A: The histogram and box plot of the ART data (n = 150 cases) are shown in
Figure 3.11. The sample median and sample mean of ART are med ≡ w = 263 and
x = 324, respectively. The distribution of ART is clearly right skewed; hence, the
mean is substantially larger than the median (almost one and half times the
standard deviation). The histogram of the bootstrap distribution of the median with
m = 1000 resamples is shown in Figure 3.12. We compute:
wboot = 266.1210
SEboot = 20.4335
The bias wboot − w = 266 – 263 = 3 is quite small (less than 7% of the standard
deviation). We therefore compute the bootstrap confidence interval of the median
as:
w ± t SE = 263 ± 1.976×20.4335 = 263 ± 40
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Figure 3.11. Histogram (a) and box plot (b) of the ART data.
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Figure 3.12. Histogram of the bootstrap distribution of the median of the ART data
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