EXERCISE 1.

Write Q-qualitative, IQ-Quantitative, N-Nominal, R-ratio, I –Interval and O-Ordinal to determine

the type and level of measurement of the given characteristics of BSU students.

__________1. Place of birth

__________2. Classification

__________3. Number of books owned

__________4. Course

__________5. Most hated subject

__________6. Type of blood

__________7. Smoker/non-smoker

__________8. IQ level

__________9. Weighted average last semester

__________10. mobile network use

__________11. number of units enrolled in a semester

__________12. SR code

__________13. mobile network use

__________14. daily allowance

__________15. number of family members

EXERCISE 1.2

A. Identifying concepts

1. It is generally used to arrive at inferences about the behavior of unknown population

characteristics.

2. Variable refers to a property of the member of a group defined by an operation which allows
making a statement only of equality or difference.

3. A characteristics of interest measurable on each and every individual.

4. A variable according to level of measurement whose data collected are labels with an implied
ordering in these labels but distance between two labels cannot be quantified.

5. It is the subset of population which is also a representation of the population.

6. A kind of statistics wherein the data are used to describe things, ideas, events etc.

7. Type of data that can only be represented in terms of decimal form.

B. Application of concepts (Level of measurements)

8. Students classification: freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior (nominal, ordinal, interval,
ratio)
9. Name of provinces where the students of BatangasStateUniversity came from

10.An instructor records the order in which students complete their tests – that is, the first to
finish, the second to finish, and so on. A(n) ____scale of measurement is used in this instance.

11. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) most likely measures the aptitude on a(n) ______scale.

12. In a study on perception of facial expressions, subjects must classify the emotions displayed
in photographs of people as anger, sadness, joy, disgust, fear, or surprise. Emotional
expression is measured on a(n) _____ scale.

13. A researcher studies the factors that determine how many children couples decide to have.
The variable, number of children, is a (discrete/continuous) variable.

EXERCISE 1.3

A. For each item below:

I. Identify the type of data (quantitative - discrete, quantitative - continuous, or qualitative)

that would be used to describe a response.

II. Give an example of the data.

* a. Number of tickets sold to a concert

* b. Amount of body fat

* c. Favorite baseball team

* d. Time in line to buy groceries

* e. Number of students enrolled at EvergreenValleyCollege

* f. Most–watched television show

* g. Brand of toothpaste

* h. Distance to the closest movie theatre

1. Classify each of these variables as categorical or numerical. If the variable is numerical,
determine whether the variable is discrete or continuous. In addition, determine the level of
measurement.
a. Number of telephones per household
b. Length(in minutes) of the longest long-distance call per month
c. Whether there is a telephone line connected to a computer modem in the household
d. Whether there is a fax machine in the household
e. Amount of time spent shopping in the bookstore
f. Number of textbooks purchased
g. Academic major
h. Gender
i. Number of internet provider
j. Amount of time spent surfing the internet per week
k. Number of e-mails received in a week
l. Number of online purchase made in a month
m. Amount of money spent on clothing in the last month
n. Favourite department store
o. Most likely time period during which shopping for clothing takes place (weekday, weeknight or
weekend)
p. Number of pairs of winter gloves owned
q. Number of jobs in past 10 years
r. Annual family salary income
s. Marital status

2. A survey of 150 executives were asked what they think is the most common mistake candidates
make during job interviews. The results are as follows:

Reason %
Little or no knowledge of company 44
Unprepared to discuss career plans 23
Limited enthusiasm 16
Lack of eye contact 5
Unprepared to discuss skills/experience 3
Other reasons 9

a. Form a bar chart, a pie chart and a Pareto diagram

b. If you were a candidate interviewing for a job, which mistakes might you try hardest to avoid?
3. An article “Retirement Plan: To Keep Working” discussed the results of a sample of 2001
Americans ages 50 to 70 who were employed full-time or part-time. The following table
represents their plans for retirement.

Plans %
Not work for pay at all 29
Start own business 10
Work full-time 7
Work part-time 46
Don’t know 3
other 5
a. Form a bar chart and a pie chart
b. Which graphical method do you think is best to portray these data?

4. Organizing numerical data

Suppose that you decide to undertake a study that compares the cost for a restaurant meal in a
major city to the cost of a similar meal in the suburbs outside the city. The table below shows
the data for 50 city restaurants and 50 suburban restaurants. The data are not arranged in order
from lowest to highest. This arrangement makes it difficult to draw conclusions about the price
of meals in the two geographical areas.
City
50 38 43 56 51 36 25 33 41 44
34 39 49 37 40 50 50 35 22 45
 44 38 14 44 51 27 44 39 50 35
31 34 48 48 30 42 26 35 32 63
36 38 53 23 39 45 37 41 39 53
Suburban
37 37 29 38 37 38 39 29 36 38
44 27 24 34 44 23 30 32 25 29
43 31 26 34 23 41 32 30 28 33
26 51 26 48 39 55 24 38 31 30
51 30 27 38 26 28 33 38 32 25
a. set up the stem-and-leaf table for these data
b. construct a frequency distribution table
Numerical Measures
5. The following data represent the total fat for burgers and chicken items from a sample of fast-
food chains.
Burgers: 19 31 34 35 39 39 43
Chicken:7 9 15 16 16 18 22 25 27 33 39
For the burgers and chicken item separately:
a. Compute the mean, median, first quartile, and third quartile
b. Compute the range and the mode
c. Based on the results of (a) through (b), what conclusions can you reach concerning the
differences in total fat of burgers and chicken items?
6. The following data COFFEEDRINK represent the calories and fat (in grams) of 16-ounces iced
coffee drinks at Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks

Product Calories Fat

Dunkin donuts iced mocha swirl latte (whole milk) 240 8.0
Starbucks coffee frappuccino blended coffee 260 3.5
Dunkin donuts coffee coolatta (cream) 350 22
Starbucks Iced coffee mocha expresso (wholemilk and whipped 350 20
cream)
Starbucks mocha frappuccino blended coffee(whipped cream) 420 16
Starbucks chocolate brownie frappuccino blended coffee (whipped 510 22
cream)
Starbucks chocolate frappuccino blended crème (whipped cream) 530 19
For each variable (calories and fat)
a. Compute the mean, median, first quartile, and third quartile
b. Compute the range and the mode. Are there any outliers? Explain.
c. Based on the results of (a) through (b), what conclusions can you reach concerning the
calories and fat in iced coffee drinks at Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks?

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

Exercise #1 Graph, ungrouped measures of central tendency and ungrouped measures of variability

1.Suppose we collect data on the peso amount that each student in a class spent on textbooks
this semester. The 36 amounts are as follows:

205 233 195 214 225 247 198 186 202 236 227 214
226 231 257 207 221 188 218 225 245 208 197 232
190 186 204 162 215 226 186 207 236 275 220 205

a. Construct a stem and leaf table

b. Compute for the ungrouped mean, median and mode

c. Construct a frequency distribution table with class size of 5, showing the following data (Class
interval, frequency, rf, <CF, >CF, midpoint, TCB)

d. compute for the grouped mean, median and mode

2. The following scores were obtained on a short test of psychomotor skill.

 18 17 15 13 12 18 16 14 13 12

Find the following:

a. Range
b. Q1
c. Q3
d. Q3-Q1
e. Mean, median and mode
f. P90-P10
3. Given the following data

customs boc
Year Import export duties income

1991 331960 8840 59486 64391

1992 378635 9829 65397 72870

1993 479526 11375 75448 81971

1994 538431 13483 60917 81610

1995 643150 17447 81471 97601

1996 758143 20543 86132 104566

1997 839697 25228 73593 94800

1998 1190992 29496 48889 76005

1999 1186105 35037 64969 86497

2000 1586580 38079 73993 95006

2001 1545016 9163 99981 99981

2002 1284451 32151 99322 99322

2003 1468270 17189 117201 117201

2004 1638351 37326 98992 127629

2005 1726410 41255 112017 154566

2006 1827649 47410 152151 198161

2007 2591441 50466 155891 209439

2008 2985575 49078 198050 260248

2009 2387575 38435 167935 220307

2010 2920462 49027 259240 259240

a. Construct a line chart (year as the independent variables and the rest as dependent
variables)
b. Form a scatter plot diagram of the Bureau of Customs Income against year.
c. Make an individual scatter plot for the other dependent variables
Exercise #2 Grouped Formula

1. Refer to the table below

Packages(kgs) Number of bags

120-129 14
110-119 46

100-109 58

90-99 76

80-89 68

70-79 62

60-69 48

50-59 22

40-49 6

1. Class boundaries of the 3rd class

2. Relative frequency of the 5th class
3. Percentage of bags with weight greater than or equal to 90 kilograms
4. Percentage of bags whose weight do not exceed of 89 kilograms
5. Grouped mean, median, mode

2. Construct a frequency distribution table

Class size (class width)= 7

48 83 89 52 60 70 66 68 77 88 56

41 50 59 92 96 58 60 74 97 62 76

47 86 71 49 67 98 91 87 66 96 84

77 51 60 57 80 91 96 100 49 48 50

55 56 62 69 75 86 76 79 84 98 92

49 58 79 86 59 66 69 68 78 81 85

Class interval Frequency <Cf >Cf <RCf >RCf

a. Compute for the grouped mean, median and mode

b. P90
c. P10
d. Q3
e. Q1
f. D8