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The document provides details about an assignment for a statistics and probability course. It includes 4 questions, with the first asking students to analyze age data through graphical displays and calculations. The second asks students to analyze survey data. The third asks students to fill in a frequency table. The fourth asks students to analyze health and smoking data through graphical displays and calculations.

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK


STAT 2593: STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY FOR ENGINEERS
ASSIGNMENT # 1 FALL, 2023

Note: Due via d2l by 11:59pm on Friday, September 22, 2023.

Question # 1: (Solve this problem using MINITAB)

Suppose we collect information on the ages (in years) of 50 students selected from a university.

21 19 24 25 29 34 26 27 37 33
18 20 19 22 19 19 25 22 25 23
25 19 31 19 23 18 23 19 23 26
22 28 21 20 22 22 21 20 19 21
25 23 18 37 27 23 21 25 21 24
(a) [5 points] Construct a stem-and-leaf display for the data.
(b) [5 points] Construct a histogram for the data.
(c) [10 points] Construct a box plot for the data. Do you think that data set has any possible outlier?
(d) [5 points] Calculate the mean, median and variance of all scores.

Question # 2:

The following data give the results of a sample survey. The letters Y, N, and D represent the three categories.

DNNYYYNYDY
YYYYNYYNNY
NYYNDNYYYY
YYNNYYNNDY

a. [10 points] Prepare a frequency distribution table.


b. [5 points] What percentage of the elements in this sample belong to category Y?
c. [5 points] What percentage of the elements in this sample belong to category N or D?
d. [5 points] Draw a pie chart for the percentage distribution using MINITAB.

Question # 3: Fill the blanks in the following table: [10 points]

Frequency Cumulative Frequency Proportion Percentage


150 ---- ---- ----
121 ---- ---- ----
210 ---- ---- ----
455 ---- ---- ----
167 ---- ---- ----
---- ---- ---- ----
Total 1500
Question # 4: (Solve this problem using MINITAB)
Consider the ''Smoking and Respiratory'' data available in the blackboard. The description of the data set is
provided below:

Keywords:
lung capacity
Categories:
regression; health
Description:
The data give information on the health and smoking habits of a sample of
654 youths, aged 3 to 19, in the area of East Boston during middle to late
1970s.In the full data set, there are 654 observations on 5 variables
Variables:
Age: The age of the subject in completed years
FEV: The forced expiratory volume, a measure of lung capacity, in
litres
Ht: Height (in inches)
Gender: The gender of the subject: Females coded as 0, males as 1
Smoke: The smoking status of the subject: 0 means a non-smoker;
1 means a smoker
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
Kahn, Michael (2005). An Exhalent Problem for Teaching Statistics.
The Journal of Statistical Education, 13(2). Available on-line Notes:
References:
Kahn,M. (2003). Data Sleuth, STATS, 37, 24.

(a) [5 points] Construct a stem-and-leaf display for the variable Height.


(b) [5 points] Construct a histogram for the variable Height.
(c) [5 points] Construct a dotplot for the variable Height.
(d) [5 points] Calculate the mean, median and variance of the variable Height.
(e) [5 points] Describe the shape of the distribution of the variable Height as either skewed leftward,
rightward or symmetric.
(f) [5 points] Construct a bar plot for the variable Gender.
(g) [5 points] Construct a pie Chart for the variable Smoke.
(h) [5 points] Draw a box plot of the variable height and comment on the availability of any possible
outliers or extreme values.

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