BHSEC Queens Statistics Spring 2014

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PROBLEM SET 1: DUE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014 EXPECTATIONS: You may use calculators or R for problem set computations; however, you are expected to set up/explain computations in writing. This is what constitutes showing work on such problems. Problem sets are due to my mailbox in the main oce by 4:30 pm on the due date. I will not accept a late homework assignment if you have not communicated with me about it (including absences). If your work is too cramped/messy to allow for feedback/corrections, you wont get feedback/corrections. Problem sets are a small portion of your grade, but they are a very good predictor of how well you will do on other components of this class. 1. Classify the following variables from the class survey as either categorical or quantitative/continuous. Variable gender age month.birth random.num Question Gender? What is your age, in years? What is your month of birth? Choose a number between 1 and 10

2. Consider the following data. 0 1 2 2.5 4 4 5 5 5 6 7.5 18 31

For the following problems, please round your answers to two decimal places. (a) What is the sample size n? (b) Find the median. (c) Compute the sample mean x . (d) Find the lower quartile. (e) Find the upper quartile. (f) Compute the interquartile range. (g) What is the high outlier cuto? What is the low outlier cuto? List all the outliers. (h) Find the variance and standard deviation. Include two decimal places. (i) In words, describe what the standard deviation represents. (j) Please carefully draw a boxplot of the data labeling the median, Q1, Q3, and outliers. 3. A histogram is described as positively/right skewed if it looks like this:

Notice how it appears that most of the data appears to be to the left of the mean and that the right tail is longer. Use this denition to answer the following question. Suppose the median of a quantitative/continuous variable is closer to the lower quartile than the upper quartile. Is the distribution/histogram more likely to be positively/right skewed or negatively/left skewed? Sketch a histogram to support your answer. (Hint: it may help you to construct a list of numbers where the condition above is satised.) 4. The following is a frequency table of the age of students in statistics last year at BHSEC Queens; it lists the number of students of each age enrolled in Statistics during the spring of 2012. Age 16 17 18 Use the frequency table to nd the following: (a) Mode age of students in statistics in the spring of 2012. (b) Median age of students in statistics in the spring of 2012. (c) Mean age of students in statistics in the spring of 2012. Round your answer to two decimal places. (d) Standard deviation of the age of students in statistics in the spring of 2012. 5. Suppose youve turned in four (equally weighted) homework assignments and received grades of 70, 75, 80, and 85. Suppose you miss the fth assignment and thus get a grade of 0. How does this 0 change (1) the median of the data, (2) the mean of the data, (3) the range, (4) the IQR, and (5) the standard deviation? Support your claim for each with computations. Write a short paragraph explaining which of these statistics should be used to reect your understanding of the material covered across all ve homework assignments? Frequency 12 43 4