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Week 5 Worksheet Answers

[DOCUMENT] provides answers to a worksheet on statistics concepts including definitions of statistical terms, identifying different levels of measurement, calculating descriptive statistics, and interpreting graphs of distributions. Key points covered include defining parameters, statistics, types of data and distributions, and calculating and comparing measures of central tendency, dispersion, position and shape.

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Week 5 Worksheet Answers

1. Write out the definition for the following


a) Parameter = description of a population characteristic
b) Statistic = description of a sample characteristic
c) Nominal = names, labels or qualities. No meaningful order
d) Ordinal = Can be arranged/ranked in order but differences aren’t
meaningful
e) Interval = Ordered and meaningful but with no true zero (position on a
scale)
f) Ratio = As for interval but has a true zero. Can make ratios between
values
g) Descriptive statistics = organization, summarization and display
h) Inferential statistics = drawing conclusions
i) Discrete data = Quantitative data that has a finite number or is countable
j) Continuous data = Quantitative data that has infinitely possible values on
a continuous scale
k) Population = all outcomes/measurements/ individuals of interest
l) Sample = A subset of the population

2. Fill in the following table


Level of Put data in arrange data Subtract data Determine if
Measurement categories in order values one data value
is a multiple of
another
Nominal Yes No No No

Ordinal Yes Yes No No

Interval Yes Yes Yes No

Ratio Yes Yes Yes Yes


3. Consider the data set: 4 17 7 14 18 12 3 16 10 4 4 11
a) Find the:
i. Quartiles (Q1, Q2 and Q3)
Q1=4
Q2=10.5
Q3=15
ii. Mean, median and mode
Mean =10
Median=10.5
Mode=4
iii. Range
Range=15
iv. Interquartile range
IQR=11
v. Outliers, if any
No outliers
b) Construct a box plot of this data

4. Define the following with the assistance of a diagram:


a) Kurtosis = measure of “peakedness”, no units, related to variability
b) Leptokurtic = Higher peaks around the mean “Fatter” tails – relatively
higher probabilities of extreme values (kurtosis > 0)
c) Mesokurtic = bell-shaped curve with zero kurtosis e.g. normal or
binomial distribution
d) Platykurtic = lower and wider peak around the mean, thinner tails –
relatively lower probabilities of extreme values (kurtosis < 0)
5. Describe the type of skewness displayed by each of the following graphs
Positive/ right skew

Symmetric

Positive/ right skew

Negative/ left skew

6. Calculate the mean, SS, variance and standard deviation for the following
data set
68435743
Mean = 5
SS = 24
Variance = 3.43
Standard Deviation = 1.85

7. Answer the following about z scores


a) What are z-scores? Z-score, or Standard score, represents the number of
standard deviations away a given value, x, falls from the mean
b) What is the formula to calculate a z-score for
a given value?

c) What is considered a usual, unusual or very


unusual z-score?

8. Define the Empirical rule and fill in the blanks of the graph below
The Empirical Rule, also known as 68-95-99.7 rule, provides a quick estimate of
the spread of data in a normal distribution given the mean and standard deviation.
9. Calculate the standard deviation for the following two data sets and
determine which has a greater variance (use the coefficient of variation)
13 21 27 31 35 24 28 32 17 20
55 54 59 55 52 51 57 49 61 57
Data set 1
Standard deviation = 7.05
CV = 28.4%
Data set 2
Standard deviation = 3.68
CV = 6.7%
Data 1 set has a larger variance than data set 2

10.The following frequency table represents the years that teachers from a
small town have been employed in the teaching profession. Construct a
frequency histogram form the data. Make sure to label your axes.
Class 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-35
Frequency 11 9 12 14 7 10 12

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