MACT 2222: Fall 2017

Assignment 5

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Write your solutions on the same paper. Don’t use any other papers.

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Question (1): State whether the following statements are true or false and correct the false ones

1- A relative frequency distribution lists the categories and their counts.

2- To describe the relationship between two nominal variables you make a scatter diagram.

3- In the following cross-classification table, the gender and the fantasy baseball participation are
related.
Participate in Fantasy Don't participate in
Football Fantasy Football
Males 75 25
Females 45 55

4- The sum of cumulative relative frequencies always equals 1.

5- Experience shows that few students submit their statistics exams early. That is, most students
prefer to hand them near the end of the test period. This means that the time taken by students to
write exams is negatively skewed.

Q2: Answer the following question

Gender Age Smoking Income Lung Cancer

0 26 yes 2500 yes
0 35 was 3000 no
0 40 yes 4700 yes
1 46 no 4000 no
0 30 no 3000 yes
1 22 was 1700 no
1 49 yes 4200 yes
0 33 yes 3700 yes
0 27 was 5000 yes
1 38 was 1900 yes
1 41 no 5100 no
0 38 was 3000 yes
0 39 yes 2600 no
1 29 no 1400 no
0 49 yes 2300 no

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a) Use a histogram and an ogive to represent the age. What is the number of patients having
more than 35 years old?

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b) Comment on the relationship between smoking and having lung cancer using a suitable table.

c) Using a suitable graph, determine whether there is a relationship between age and income.

d) Use the SPSS software to re-answer the questions (a), (b), and (c). Attach a hard copy from
the SPSS output with your answer sheet.