How do rented housing units differ from units occupied by their owners? Here are the distributions of the number of rooms for owner-occupied units and renter occupied units in San Jose, California.
Rooms 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Owned 0.003 0.002 0.023 0.111 0.208 0.227 0.189 0.149 0.053 0.035
Rented 0.008 0.027 0.287 0.373 0.168 0.097 0.021 0.013 0.003 0.003
Find the mean number of rooms for both types of housing unit.
Owned rooms
Rented rooms
How do the means reflect the differences between the distributions of these housing types?
The value of μ for owned units indicates skewness in that distribution.
The value of μ for owned units indicates symmetry in that distribution.
The value of μ for owned units indicates randomness in that distribution.
The value of μ for rented units indicates skewness in that distribution.
The value of μ for rented units indicates symmetry in that distribution.
The value of μ for rented units indicates randomness in that distribution.