Aaron Brodkin

P6
9-22-15
A Very Cozy Data Summary
a.) For this project I decided to ask people over the internet how many pillows
they slept with. The values represent the number of pillows people sleep with
at night. The population is all people who sleep with pillows, but the sample I
surveyed contained 37 people. The unit was whole pillows, because it would
be illogical to sleep in fractions of pillows.
b.) I collected my data by submitting a Google form questionnaire to my
Facebook page. I collected data about this topic for one thing to find out how
many pillows people sleep with, but more specifically to measure the level of
opulence of the people that took said survey. For instance, if someone sleeps
with 10 pillows at night, it can be inferred that they live in a high level of
luxury, seeing as how nobody needs 10 pillows.
c.) The sample size for this survey is 37. This value was found by simply looking
at my Google form responses. The five number summary contained the values
1, 2, 3, 4 and 10, and was calculated by an r code of
fivenum(Pillows$#ofpillows). The mean of the data was 3.567, and was
calculated from the r code mean(Pillows$#ofpillows). The median of the
data is 3, and can be taken from the very center value of the five number
summary. As for the range, only a simple calculation was required which was
10-1, the maximum number of pillows people slept with subtracted by the
minimum. This comes out to a total of 1. Standard deviation is 2.409 as found

by the r code sd(Pillows$#ofpillows). To find the variance of this data set I

simply squared the value that was given for standard deviation, which came
out to a total of 5.807. The IQR is 2 and was found by subtracting the 3rd
quartile from the 1st quartile.
d.) Yes there is an outlier in my data set. This value however is not as obvious as
it may seem, because although 10 is a seemingly outrageous number, three
people in my survey gave this value, which made it part of the regular set of
data, however it increased my mean significantly. 7 is an outlier in the data
because only one person gave this value.

e.)

f.) The sample size remained the same at 37 because no more values were added.
The new mean came out to 103.568 by using the previously mentioned r code
for mean. The five number summary for this new set of data is 101, 102, 103,
104, 110, and was found by using the fivenum r code. The range was still 9,

using maximum- minimum values. Both the standard deviation and variances
remained the same for the data when 100 was added because the values are
the same, except with an extra one hundred added to each. The outlier once
again is 107 for the same reason as explained the first time.

g.) The mean for this new data set is 5.35, the fivenumber summary is 1.5, 3, 4.5,
6, 15, the range is 13.5, the standard deviation is 3.615, and the variance is
13.068. As you can see, this is now a completely different set of values. This
didnt happen when 100 was added to each one because a constant was being
added, so the mean and such remained the same, although the data was just
scaled up. However when the data is multiplied, it changes drastically.

All in all it can be drawn from the data that the average number of pillows that
my classmates sleep with is 3.567, but since there cannot be half a pillow the
average rounds up to 4. From this data it can then be inferred that the average
student that answered my survey lives in a moderate level of opulence,
extreme being 10, and poverty being 1.