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Describe how to use a retrospective study to determine if the home teams have an unfair advantage when shooting free-throws.
 
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An alarm company reports that the number of alarms sent to their monitoring center from customers owning their system follow a Poisson distribution with  = 4.7 alarms per year. Identify the mean and standard deviation for this distribution.
 
  A) mean = 4.7, standard Deviation = 4.7 B) mean = 2.17, standard Deviation = 4.7
  C) mean = 4.7, standard Deviation = 2.17 D) mean = 2.17, standard Deviation = 2.17



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Answer to Question 1

A retrospective study is an observational study in which past games are reviewed to see how many free-throws the team when they had the altered basketballs versus when they had basketballs pumped up correctly. The differences in the number or percentage of free-throws made would be compared between the two types of basketballs.

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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