ST130 Assignment S1

ST130: Basic Statistics
Assignment, Semester 1, 2024

Due Date: Monday 13th May, 2024, 11.59pm (Fiji-time) Total Marks: 50
Weight: 10%
Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Face to face students are to complete this assignment in a group of 2 or 3 students formed in your
tutorials and online students may do this assignment individually.
3. Use MS Excel to complete this assignment, that is all calculations should be done using the MS excel
functions.
4. Write your group members information (name, ID, signature, etc.) on a new sheet and rename it as
Group Information.
5. Each question should be done in different sheets and rename them as Q1 for Question 1, Q2 for
Question 2, and so on.
6. Only one member from each group to upload the groups assignment solution (MS excel file) via drop
box created on Moodle.
7. Plagiarized assignments will be given a mark of 0 (zero) and will be reported for disciplinary action.
Access Fiji Farm Survey data set from MOODLE. And use that for all questions.
Fiji Farm Survey data set is taken from a survey of Sugar cane Farmers in Fiji conducted by a research team
from the University of Queensland in 2005.
Q1. (12 marks)

a. Classify the variables given in the dataset as quantitative/Qualitative, discrete/continuous,
nominal/ordinal/ratio/interval. (2 marks)
b. Construct a grouped frequency distribution for the variable ‘Age’. Take class width as 7, starting from
21 as the lower limit of the first class. (3 marks)
c. Produce a frequency polygon using the frequency distribution in Part B. Give appropriate title, label to
axis and it to be solid lines only and no color fill. (3 marks)
d. Discuss the result of the frequency polygon, is there a serious problem in sugar industry regarding
farmers age. If yes then recommend a suitable way to minimize this problem. (2 marks)
e. Draw an appropriate graph for the variable ‘No. of children’ and use it to analyze the data.
(2 marks)
Q2. (10 marks)
Now create a new variable ‘cane output per acre’ in a new column. (Cane output per acre = cane output /
cultivated area). (1 mark)
a. Calculate the descriptive statistics using MS-Excel for ‘Cane output per acre’ for farmers who attend
and for farmers who do not attend the extension program. (Hint: ignore non-numeric cells in
computing). Interpret the following statistic (Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation) obtained for
farmers who attend the program. (4 marks)
b. What conclusion can be reach from the comparison of descriptive statistics between ‘Cane output per acre’
for farmers who attend and for farmers who do not attend the extension program? Justify why or why note
there is significant difference in output? (2 marks)
c. Draw a boxplot for the variable ‘Education (years)’ and use it to analyze the data. (3 marks)
Q3. (9 marks)
Construct a contingency table and relative contingency table (using Pivot table tool in Excel) for ‘Farming
status’ in raw and ‘Children help’ in column. (4 marks)
a. What is the probability that a randomly selected farmer is working full time on his farm? (1 mark)
b. What is the probability that a randomly selected farmer is working full time and does not get the help
from their children? (1 mark)
c. What is the probability that a randomly selected farmer is working full time or does not get the help
from their children? (1 mark)
d. What is the probability that a randomly selected farmer is working full time given that he does not get
the help from their children? (1 mark)
e. Any conclusions from this analysis? (1 marks)
Q4. (8 marks)
a. Assume that the annual profit from farming is approximately normally distributed. Individual earning
less than $2500 is believed to be in poverty. Calculate what proportion of sugar cane farmers are in
poverty?
(3 marks)
b. A researcher intends to estimate population proportions of farmers in Fiji who are in poverty. The
researcher intends to be 90% confident and expects that his estimation to be within 2% of population
proportion. How large sample size should be taken to achieve these conditions. (3 marks)
c. Which sampling procedure would you recommend to the researcher in part (b), provide reason for your
answer. (2 marks)
Q5. (11 marks)

a. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the mean age of farmers. Comment on your results.
(3 marks)
b. Test whether the mean annual profit from farming is less than $2000.Use α = 0.01 and the P-value
method. Show all five steps of Hypothesis testing. Comment on your results in regards to poverty for
sugar cane farmers. (8 marks)
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