In: Statistics and Probability
Here are the survival times in days of 72 guinea pigs after they were injected with infections bacteria in a medical experiment. Survival times, whether of machines under stress or cancer patients after treatment, usually have distributions that are skewed to the right.
43 45 53 56 56 57 58 66 67 73 74 79
80 80 81 81 81 82 83 83 84 88 89 91
91 92 92 97 99 99 100 100 101 102 102 102
103 104 107 108 109 113 114 118 121 123 126 128
137 138 139 144 145 147 156 162 174 178 179 184
191 198 211 214 243 249 329 380 403 511 522 598
a) Create a frequency distribution with 8 classes and describe its main features. Create a histogram from the data. Does the data show the expected right-skewed?