The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 5.4 days and a standard deviation of 1.5 days.

Question

The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 5.4 days and a standard deviation of 1.5 days.

What is the median recovery time?

______ days

Answer 1

The median will be X where 50% of the distribution > X, and 50 % < X

As the normal distribution is symmetric, median = mean = 5.4 days

The standard deviation is irrelevant