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nonfiction writers. Figure 1.17 shows modified sideby-side boxplots for the three categories of writers. The poets do appear to die young! Note that there is an outlier among the nonfiction writers. This writer died at the age of 40, young for a nonfiction writer, but not for a novelist or a poet! Lets use the methods of this chapter to compare the ages at death for poets and nonfiction writers. POETS (a) Use numerical and graphical summaries to describe the distribution of age at death for the poets. Do the same for the nonfiction writers. (b) Use the methods of Chapter 7 (page 454) to compare the means of the two distributions. Summarize your findings. (c) Use the bootstrap methods of this chapter to compare the means of the two distributions. Summarize your findings.