HP 49g Graphing Calculator User Manual

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Chapter 9

Using statistics

Contents

Descriptive statistics...................................................................................... 9-2

Starting an application and specifying the data................................. 9-2

Single-variable statistics.......................................................................... 9-3

Generating frequencies.......................................................................... 9-4

Fitting a model to a set of data............................................................. 9-5

Calculating siuranaiy statistics................................................................9-6

Plotting statistics...................................................................................... 9-7

Inferential statistics........................................................................................ 9-7

Example data............................................................................................9-7

Using inferential statistics........................................................................9-8

Hypothesis tests.......................................................................................9-9

Confidence intervals..............................................................................9-15

Introduction

This chapter describes how to use the HP 49G to analyze data statistically.
You can use the HP 49G to analyze two broad categories of statistics:

* Descriptive statistics enables you to calculate values such as the

mean, the variance, and the standard deviation. You can also apply
regression techniques to the data to fit a symbolic model to it.

® Inferential statistics enables you to calculate values such as

confidence intervals. You can also perfonn hypothesis tests based on

the Normal Z- and Student’s t-distributions.

The inferential statistics applications includes online help. On any of
the inferential statistics screens, press

HELP

to display help on how to

complete the screen.

Using statistics

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