BA STATISTICS

FIRST LABORATORY EXERCISE

I. Identify the kind of measurement on which the following variables are measured:
1. marital status 4. number of petals in a gumamela flower
2. number of errors in exam 5. intelligence quotient
3. GPA of a student
6. II. Identify the measure of central tendency that is most appropriate for the following data sets.
1. prices of shampoo in a grocery store 7. monthly income
2. ages of incoming freshmen 8. mobile phone model
3. number of durian per tree in an orchard 9. GPA students
4. marital status 10. blood pressure readings of senior
5. number of error in an examination readings
6. t-shirts brands
11. III. Identify the type of sampling used when a sample of the 366,000 Coca Cola shareholders is obtained as described.
Then determine whether the sampling scheme is likely to result in a sample that is representative of the population of
all 366,000 shareholders.
1. A complete list of all stockholders is compiled and every 500th name is selected.
2. At the annual stockholders meeting, a survey is conducted of all who attend.
3. Fifty different stockbrokers are randomly selected, and a survey is made of all their clients who own shares of
Coca Cola.
4. A computer file of all stockholders is compiled so that they are all numbered consecutively, then random numbers
generated by computer are used to select the sample of stockholders.
5. All of the stockholder zip codes are collected and 5 stockholders are randomly selected from each zip code.
12. IV. In "Ages of Oscar-winning Best Actors and Actresses" (Mathematics Teacher magazine) by Richard Brown
and Gretchen Davis, the authors compare the ages of actors and actresses at the time they won Oscars. The results for
winners from both categories are listed in the following table. Describe two data sets.
13. Ac 14. 32 37 36 32 51 53 33 61 35 45
tor 55
s: 15. 39 76 37 42 40 32 60 38 56 48
48
16. 40 43 62 43 42 44 41 56 39 46
31
17. 47 45 60 46 40 36
18.
19. Ac 20. 50 44 35 80 26 28 41 21 61 38
tre 49
sse 21. 33 74 30 33 41 31 35 41 42 37
s: 26
22. 34 34 35 26 61 60 34 24 30 37
31
27 39 34 26 25 33
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1. Find the measures of central tendency of the data sets. Interpret.
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 34. Statistics

35. 36. 37. Ac 38. Actr

tor ess
s es
39. 40. V
N al 41. 39 42. 39
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47. Mean 48. 44
49. 38.
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50. Median 51. 43
52. 34.
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53. Mode 54. 32
a 55. 26a

56. a. Multiple modes exist. The smallest

value is shown

57. Interpretation:
58. Actors:
59. On the average the age of the actors who won the Oscars award is 44.79 years.
60. Fifty percent of the actors who won the Oscars award have ages below 43 years and fifty percent of the actors
have ages above 43 years.
61. The most frequent age of the actors who won the Oscars award is 32 years.
62.
63. Actresses:
64. On the average the age of the actresses who won the Oscars award is 38 years.
65. Fifty percent of the actresses who won the Oscars award have ages below 34 years and fifty percent of the actors
have ages above 34 years.
66. The most frequent age of the actresses who won the Oscars award is 26 years.
67.
68. The above result seems to convey that actresses won the Oscars award at a younger age than the actors.
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2. Find the measures of dispersion. Interpret it with respect to the mean.
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73. Statistics

74. 75. 76. Ac 77. Actr

tor ess
s es
78. 79. Valid 80. 39 81. 39
N
83. Missing 84. 0 85. 0
86. Std. Deviation 87. 10
88. 13.
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369
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89. Variance 90. 10
91. 178
2.
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53
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92. Range 93. 45 94. 59
95. Minimum 96. 31 97. 21
98. Maximum 99. 76 100.80
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102. Interpretation:
103. On the average, the age of the actors is 44.79 years with a deviation of 10.13 years. Further, the youngest
actor who won the award has an age of 31 while the oldest has an age of 76 years.
104. On the other hand, the female artists have an average age of 38 years with a deviation of 13.37 years.
Moreover, the youngest actress who won the award has an age of 21 while the oldest is 80.
105.
3. Find the coefficient of variation for the two data sets and compare.
S Actors 10.126
106.
CV Actors= = =22.61
X Actors 44.79

S Actresses 13.369
107.
CV Actresses= = =35.09
X Actresses 38.10

108. Therefore, the age of the actresses is more variable than that of the actors.
109.
4. Find the following fractiles and interpret.
i.
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110.
111. Statistics

112. 113. 114. Ac 115. Actr

tor ess
s es
116. N 117. V
al 118. 39 119. 39
id
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124.Perc 125.2 126.37
127.29.
entile 4 .0
20
s 0
128.
129. Interpretation:
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131. Twenty-four percent of the actors have an age below 37 years. Further, 24% of the actresses have an age
that falls below 29.20 years.
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136. 137. 138.Ac 139.Actr

tor ess
s es
140.N 141.V
al 142.39 143.39
id
145.M
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si 146.0 147.0
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148.Perc 149.7 150.48
151.41.
entile 0 .0
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s 0
152.
153. Interpretation
154. Seventy percent of the actors have an age below 48 years. Moreover, 70% of the actresses have
an age below 41years.
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156.
157.Statistics

158. 159. 160.Ac 161.Actr

tor ess
s es
162.N 163.V
al 164.39 165.39
id
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si 168.0 169.0
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170.Perc 171.2 172.37
173.30.
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s 0

174. Interpretation
175.
176. Twenty-five percent of the male artists have an age below 37 while the female artists have an age
below 30.
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5. Plot the histogram for the data sets.
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185. Interpretation:
186. The distribution of the age of the actors is skewed to the right. The age of the actors is more
condensed to the left of the mean.

187.
188. The distribution of the age of the actresses is skewed to the right. That means, the age of the actresses is
condensed to the left of the mean. This may seem to imply that the female artists won their awards at a younger
age.
189.
6. Plot the boxplot for the data sets. Interpret.
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194. Interpretation:

195. The figure above shows that there is a difference to the age the actors and
actresses when they received the Oscars award. In addition, the female artists seem to
achieve the Oscars award at a younger age than that of the male. However, more
extreme values are observed in the actresses than that of the actors.