Assignment 1 STA 201

Course Name: STA-201
Assignment 1
Last date of submission: 20.10.2022
Question 1: Explain whether each of the following constitutes a population or a sample.

a. Pounds of bass caught by all participants in a bass fishing derby
b. Credit card debts of 100 families selected from a city
c. Number of home runs hit by all Major League baseball players in the 2009 season
d. Number of parole violations by all 2147 parolees in a city
e. Amount spent on prescription drugs by 200 senior citizens in a large city
Question 2: Thoughts on Evolution. In an article titled “Who has designs on your student’s
minds?” (Nature, Vol. 434, pp. 1062–1065), author G. Brumfiel postulated that support for
Darwinism increases with level of education. The following table provides percentages of U.S.
adults, by educational level, who believe that evolution is a scientific theory well supported by
evidence.
Education Percentage
Postgraduate education 65%
College graduate 52%
Some college education 32%
High school or less 20%
a. Do you think that this study is descriptive or inferential? Explain your answer.
b. If, in fact, the study is inferential, identify the sample and population.
Question 3: In a psychological study linking a person’s attitude with his or her perception of
human faces, 165 subjects were asked to judge the attributes of each of two unknown faces. It was
proven that manipulated attitude significantly influences the judgment of facial dimensions that
are evaluatively loaded (e.g., smiling or frowning mouth).
a. Do you think this study is descriptive or inferential? Explain your answer.

b. If, in fact, the study is inferential, identify the sample and population.
Question 4: Indicate which of the following variables are quantitative and which are qualitative.
 Number of typographical errors in newspapers
 Monthly TV cable bills
 Spring break locations favored by college students
 Number of cars owned by families
 Lottery revenues of states
 Number of persons in a family
 Colors of cars
 Marital status of people
 Time to commute from home to work
 Number of errors in a person’s credit report
Question 5: Classify the quantitative variables in Question 4 as discrete or continuous.
Question 6: 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. Prepare a frequency distribution table.
b. Calculate the relative frequencies and percentages for all categories.
c. What percentage of the elements in this sample belong to category Y?
d. What percentage of the elements in this sample belong to category N or D?
e. Draw a pie chart for the percentage distribution.
Question 7: Thirty adults were asked which of the following conveniences they would find most
difficult to do without: television (T), refrigerator (R), air conditioning (A), public transportation
(P), or microwave (M). Their responses are listed below:
RARPPTRMPA
ARRTPPTRAA
RPATRPRAPR
a. Prepare a frequency distribution table.

b. Calculate the relative frequencies and percentages for all categories.
c. What percentage of these adults named refrigerator or air conditioning as the
convenience that they would find most difficult to do without?
d. Draw a bar graph for the relative frequency distribution.
Question 8: The World Health Organization (WHO) collects data on health across the globe. The
following table from the 2014World Health Statistics report published by WHO provides data on
the life expectancy (the average number of years that an infant can expect to live, if he or she lived
a life exposed to the sex- and age specific death rates persisting at the time of his or her birth, for
a specific year, and in a given region) of males and females as of 2012.
Life Expectancy (years)

WHO region Males Females
Africa 56 59
America 74 79
South-East Asia 66 69
Europe 72 80
Eastern Mediterranean 66 70
Western Pacific 74 78
a. Obtain relative-frequency distributions of life expectancy for
males and females.
b. Draw a pie chart for both males and females.
c. Compare your pie charts.
d. Construct bar chart and comment on that.
Question 9: The following data represent the daily income (in Tk) of 30 workers-
65, 80, 55, 60, 70, 72, 85, 50, 52, 60, 57, 87, 75, 68, 65, 56, 78, 80, 86, 62, 70, 60, 50, 56, 74, 66,
62, 88, 80, 75.
a. Construct a frequency distribution table using appropriate class interval.

b. Construct histogram, frequency polygon and ogive. Make comment on your findings.
c. Try to create a stem and leaf plot and make proper interpretation using your graph.
Question 10: The following table represents the weight (in kg) of the students of a specific
University.
Weight (in kg) (Class Frequency (for male) Frequency (for female)
interval)
30-40 5 8
40-50 7 10
50-60 15 12
60-70 10 8
70-80 8 5
80-90 5 2
Use appropriate graph to compare the weight of two groups.

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Question 1: Explain whether each of the following constitutes a population or a sample.

a. Do you think this study is descriptive or inferential? Explain your answer.

Question 5: Classify the quantitative variables in Question 4 as discrete or continuous.

a. Prepare a frequency distribution table.

Life Expectancy (years)

a. Construct a frequency distribution table using appropriate class interval.

Use appropriate graph to compare the weight of two groups.

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