You are a psychologist who has collected the subjective well-being scores of a number of elderly people aged 90 or above who are residents of an independent living facility or who are still living independently in their homes.

A. For each group calculates the values listed below:

a. Mean

b. Median

c. Mode

d. Range

e. Variance (for describing the data)

f. Standard deviation (for describing the data)

g. The unbiased estimate of the variance

h. The unbiased estimate of the standard deviation

B. Which data set has a mean that is more representative of the data? Why

Independent Living Facility At Home

70     60

88    70

70    70

70    75

71    72

80    68

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