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Collmarie

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For data that has a bell-shaped distribution, will the interquartile range span a larger set of values than the range from one standard deviation below the mean to one standard deviation above the mean? Explain why or why not.
 
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The Wilcoxon rank sum test is likely to generate the same results as the Mann-Whitney U test.
 
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stanleka1

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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Interquartile range contains the middle 50. The mean  1 standard deviation captures the middle 68 of the observations. Therefore the interquartile range has to be smaller.

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Wow, this really help

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