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14 <strong>Biostatistics</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Animal</strong> <strong>Science</strong><br />

1.4. The following are data of milk fat yield (kg) per month from 17 Holstein cows:<br />

27 17 31 20 29 22 40 28 26 28 34 32 32 32 30 23 25<br />

Calculate descriptive statistics. Show that if 3 kg are added to each observation, the mean<br />

will increase by three and the sample variance will stay the same. Show that if each<br />

observation is divided by two, the mean will be two times smaller and the sample variance<br />

will be four times smaller. How will the standard deviation be changed?

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