On September 29, 2005, John Roberts was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the United States. Since 1869 there have been nine justices at any one time on the Supreme Court of the United States: one chief justice and eight associate justices. (Prior to that time, the number of justices varied from six to ten.) From the court's inception in 1789 to the present day, 17 men have served as chief justice of the Supreme Court, including Justice Roberts. The previous 16 chief justices are listed in the table below, along with the length of their tenure (in days). This data was retrieved from the Web site of the Supreme Court (www.supremecourtus.gov).
Compute each of the following summary statistics. Round your answers to the nearest day.
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IQR = days
mean = days
standard deviation = days
chief justice | tenure |
John Jay | 2079 |
John Rutledge | 125 |
Oliver Ellsworth | 1742 |
John Marshall | 12542 |
Roger B. Taney | 10425 |
Salmon P. Chase | 3065 |
Morrison R. Waite | 5133 |
Melville W. Fuller | 7938 |
Edward D. White | 3804 |
William Howard Taft | 3129 |
Charles E. Hughes | 4144 |
Harlan F. Stone | 1754 |
Frederick M. Vinson | 2633 |
Earl Warren | 5740 |
Warren E. Burger | 6304 |
William H. Rehnquist | 6917 |
Compute each of the following summary statistics. Round your answers to the nearest day.
median = days
IQR = days
mean = days
standard deviation = days