Introduction To Statistics and Descriptive Statistics
Introduction To Statistics and Descriptive Statistics
Introduction To Statistics and Descriptive Statistics
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DATA
1. State which of the following represents discrete data and which represent
continuous data:
a. Numbers of shares sold each day in the stock market
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b. Temperature recorded every three hours PAG-ASA
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c. Lifetimes of television tubes produced by a certain company
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d. Yearly incomes of college professors
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e. Lengths of 31 bolts produced by a factory
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2. Identify which of the following represent a continuous variable and which a
discrete variable:
a. Time of day
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b. Number of female students in the class
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c. Age of subjects in an experiment
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d. Percentage of women in a class
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e. Speed of runners in a race
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3. Identify the level of measurement for of each of the following variables:
a. Number of cars ridden by students in the senior class
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b. Types of cars ridden by students in the sophomore class
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c. The IQ of your teachers (assume equal interval scaling)
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d. Proficiency in mathematics is graded into the categories of poor, fair,
and good
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e. Anxiety over public speaking is scored on a scale of 0-100. (Assume
the difference in anxiety between adjacent units throughout the scale is
not the same.)
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f. The weight of a group of dieters
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g. The time it takes to react the sound of a tone.
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h. Proficiency in mathematics is scored on a scale of 0-100. The scale is
well standardized and can be thought of as having equal intervals
between adjacent units.
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i. Ratings of professors by students on a 50-point scale. There is
insufficient basis for assuming equal intervals between adjacent units.
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DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. For each of the hypothetical research situations described in the following,
identify the population and the sample:
a. A memory test was administered to a group of 20 students enrolled in
an introductory psychology course. The purpose of this test was to assess
the mnemonic aids that introductory psychology students usually use for
memorizing key terms.
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GROUP DATA:
1. Find (a) the quartiles Q1, Q2, and Q3; (b) D1, D2,…,D9;(c) P35 and P60 for the
wages of the 65 employees of CSCST-Main Campus.
Number of
Wages Employees
Php250.00-Php259.90 8
260.00-269.90 10
270.00-279.90 16
280.00-289.90 14
290.00-299.90 10
300.00-309.90 5
310.00-319.90 2
Total 65
MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY:
MEAN (UNGROUP DATA):
1. A student kept track of the number of hours he studied each day for a 2-week
period. The following daily scores were recorded (scores are in hours): 2.5, 3.2,
3.8, 1.3, 1.4, 0, 0, 2.6, 5.2, 4.8, 0, 4.6, 2.8, 3.3. Calculate for the mean number of
hours studied per day.
2. An ornithologist studying the glaucous-winged gull on Puget Sound counts the
number of aggressive interactions per minute among a group of sea gulls during
9 consecutive minutes. The following scores resulted: 24, 9, 12, 15, 10, 13, 22,
20, and 14. Calculate the mean number of aggressive interactions per
minute.
3. The timekeeper for a particular mile race uses a stopwatch to determine the
finishing times of the racers. He then calculates that the mean time for the first
three finishers was 4.25 minutes. After checking his stopwatch, he notices to his
horror that the stopwatch begins timing at 15 seconds rather than 0. What is the
correct mean time for the first three finishers?
4. A reading specialist tests the reading speed of children in four sixth-grade
English classes. There are 42 students in class A, 35 in class B, 33 in class C,
and 39 in class D. The mean reading speeds in words per minute for the classes
were as follows: class A, 220; class B, 185; class C, 212; and class D, 172. What
is the mean reading speed for all classes combined?
5. The manufacturer of brand A jogging shoes wants to determine how long the
shoes last before resoling is necessary. She randomly samples from users in
Cebu, Manila and Negros Occidental. In Cebu, the sample size was 28, and the
mean duration before resoling was 7.2 months. In Manila, the sample size was
35, and the mean duration before resoling was 6.3 months. In Negros
Occidental, the sample size was 22, and the mean duration before resoling was
8.5 months. What is the overall mean duration before resoling is necessary for
brand A jogging shoes?
2. Twelve secretaries were given a typing test, and the times (in minutes) to
complete it were as follows: 8, 12, 15, 9, 6, 8, 10, 9, 8, 6, 7, 8. Find the median.
3. Nine physicians were selected and given a blood pressure check. Their
systolic pressures are recorded as follows: 135, 120, 116, 119, 121, 125,
132,136, and 124. Compute for the median.
4. The manager of a sports shop recorded the number of baseball caps he sold
during the week. The data are: 132, 121, 119, 116, 130, 121, and 131. Compute
for the median.
SKEWNESS
1. Table below shows the frequency distribution of the daily wages of 65
employees of CSCST-Main Campus. Compute for the skewness.
Number of
Wages Employees
Php250.00-Php259.90 8
260.00-269.90 10
270.00-279.90 16
280.00-289.90 14
290.00-299.90 10
300.00-309.90 5
310.00-319.90 2
Total 65
BOX PLOT
1. Shown next are the number of farms in six provinces in the Philippines. The
data are as follows: 498, 767, 633, 747, 1369, and 1139. Construct a box plot.
2. The following are the sizes of police force of 10 largest provinces of the
Philippines in 2005 (the numbers represents hundreds of police): 29.3, 7.6, 12.1,
4.7, 6.2, 1.9, 3.9, 2.8, 2.0, and 1.7. Construct a box plot for that data.
3. The data presented next are the numbers of calculators sold during a
randomly selected week: 8, 12, 23, 5, 9, 15, and 3.Construct a box plot.