Statistics Exercises. Lecture 1: Descriptive Statistics.

Academic Year 2013/14

1. Determine the type of variable (categorical-ordinal, categorical-nominal, numericaldiscrete or numerical-continuous) (a) Temperature in Celsius (b) The number of years each of your teachers has taught (c) The length of time spent by the typical teenager watching television in a month (d) The daily amount of money lost by the airlines in the 15 months after the 9/11 attacks (e) Marital status (married, single, divorced, widowed) (f) Number of trials need by a student to learn a memorization task. (g) Income (h) Level of education (elementary school graduate, high school graduate, some college and college graduate) 2. The following data is based on the number of women (in thousands) in the workforce (by profession) in the USA in 1986: Profession Engineering Health Education Law Art/Entertainment Others Number of women 347 1937 2833 698 901 355

(a) Find the frequency distribution table. What percentage of women worked as lawers? (b) Construct a barchart and piechart for this data using part (a) 3. Consider the following (ranked) 20 observations 3.60 5.80 7.50 8.80 9.70 10.2 10.9 11.3 12.0 12.2 12.7 13.0 13.0 13.2 13.5 13.8 14.2 14.4 14.6 14.8 (a) Find the frequency and cumulative distribution of this data set (using 4 classes). (b) Construct a histogram and ogive for this data using (a). (c) Based on the histogram, describe the shape of the distribution. 1

4. The following table shows the absolute frequency distribution of the variable height (in meters) of n = 500 students. Class interval Absolute frequency [1.59, 1.61) 11 [1.61, 1.63) 71 [1.63, 1.65) 159 [1.65, 1.67) 177 [1.67, 1.69) 67 [1.69, 1.71) 15 Relative frequency ... ... ... ... ... ...

(a) Draw the histogram of the data using the above table and describe the shape of the distribution. (b) Calculate the relative frequencies. (c) How many students are taller than 1.67m, inclusively? And what percentage of students are shorter than 1.63m? 5. The following data represent the scores on a statistics examination of a sample of students: 87 63 91 72 80 77 93 69 75 79 70 83 94 75 88 (a) Find the mean, median and mode of these observations. (b) Find the quartiles and draw a boxplot for this data set. (c) Find the range, interquartile range, sample quasi-variance and sample quasidesviation of these observations. (d) Are there any outliers? 6. The following data shows the (hourly) number of sales in an ice-cream shop, recorded during dierent opening hours: 35 47 22 15 13 28 39 41 43 36 24 23 17 19 21 31 35 37 41 43 47 5 12 19 (a) Find the mean, median and mode of these observations. (b) Find the quartiles and draw a boxplot for this data set. (c) Find the range, interquartile range, sample quasi-variance and sample quasidesviation of these observations. (d) Are there any outliers? 7. What is the mean of a set of data where s = 20, 8. Consider the following data: 47 52 52 57 63 64 69 71 72 72 78 81 81 86 91 (a) Find the quartiles and draw a boxplot for this data set. (b) Are there any outliers? x = 245, and (x x)2 = 13600