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100A Discussion Section Week 1

This document provides information about an introductory discussion section for a summer course. It introduces the instructor, Andrew Nguyen, and provides his contact information. It also provides information about office hours, resources for students with accommodations, and practice problems to work through related to indices of central tendency and other statistical concepts.

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100A Discussion Section Week 1

This document provides information about an introductory discussion section for a summer course. It introduces the instructor, Andrew Nguyen, and provides his contact information. It also provides information about office hours, resources for students with accommodations, and practice problems to work through related to indices of central tendency and other statistical concepts.

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100A Discussion

Section
Week 1: Summer Session A
Andrew Nguyen
6/28/2019
Who Am I?
• Andrew Nguyen
• [email protected]
• Personal

• Education

• Office Hours
• Tuesday (11:50-12:50)
• School of Public Health 73-272
• Also, Dr. Ainsworth’s Office Hours
If you need it
• The Center for Accessible Education
• www.cae.ucla.edu
• Will help you get any accommodations you may need

• Your tuition literally pays them, make use of them if you’re having
trouble
Poll on how discussion can best help
you
Practice problems
• 1. Consider the following set of numbers: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5. What
is the interquartile range?

• 2. Define the three indices of central tendency, and show the


equations where appropriate.
Practice Problems
3. Sample data of 20 scores {31, 23, 34, 38, 27, 34, 36, 22, 23, 33, 29, 33, 34, 34, 36, 33, 36, 24, 30, 29}
Re-ordered: {22, 23, 23, 24, 27, 29, 29, 30, 31, 33, 33, 33, 34, 34, 34, 34, 36, 36, 36, 38}, n=20

• What is the mode?


• What is the median?
• What is the mean?
• What is the range?
• What score is the 22nd percentile using the interpolation method?

• • What is Q1?

• • What is Q3?

• • What is the interquartile range?


Practice Problems
• 4. Gender, ethnicity, and psychiatric diagnosis are all nominal (categorical) variables.
Does it make sense to calculate their means?

• 5. In a research study, we collect a sample of data and compute ______________ in


order to draw inferences about ______________?

• 6. A frequency distribution expressed as a histogram has __________________ on the x-


axis and ________________ on the Y-axis?

• 7. Floor effects are associated with _____________ skewed frequency distributions


while ceiling effects are associated with _______________ skewed frequency
distributions.
Practice Problems
• 8. The median of 43 22 65 103 12 is?

• 9. Consider the following set of scores: 1,5,3,7,5,8,9,11,2,4,3,5,6. What is the


mode?

• 10. Consider the following set of scores: 8,3,7,5,8,9,11,2,4,3,7,6. What is the


median?

• 11. Given the data 43,55,72,4,17,102,143,29,84,33,142,6,10 What is the


range?
Practice Problems
• 12. In a positively skewed distribution, the mode is lower than the
mean, but the mean is higher than the median. True or False?

• 13. A distribution has a mean of 13 a mode of 18 and a median of 15.


The shape of the distribution must be?

• 14. A unimodal, symmetric distribution that is bell-shaped is called?

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