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MATH 221 Statistics for Decision Making

Week 2 Lab

Name:_______________________

Statistical Concepts that you will learn after completing this iLab:
 Using Excel for Statistics
 Graphics
 Shapes of Distributions
 Descriptive Statistics
 Empirical Rule

Week 2 Lab Instructions-BEGIN

 Data have already been formatted and entered into an Excel worksheet.

 Obtain the data file for this Lab from your instructor.

 The names of each variable from the survey are in the first row of the Worksheet. This
row has a background color of gray to identify it as the variable names. All other rows
of the Worksheet represent a certain students’ answers to the survey questions.
Therefore, the rows are called observations and the columns are called variables. On
page 6 of this lab document, you will find a code sheet that identifies the
correspondence between the variable names and the survey questions.

 Follow the directions below and then paste the graphs from Excel in the grey areas for
question 1 through 3. Type your answers to questions 4 through 11 where noted in the
grey areas. When asked for explanations, please give thorough, multi-sentence or
paragraph length explanations.

 PLEASE NOTE that various versions of Excel may have slightly different formula
commands. For example, some versions use =STDEV.S while other versions would
use =STDEVS (without the dot before the last “S”).

 The completed Lab Word Document with your responses to the 11 questions will be
the ONE and only document submitted. When saving and submitting the document,
you are required to use the following format: Last Name_ First Name_Week2Lab.

Week 2 Lab Instructions-END

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Creating Graphs

1. Create a pie chart for the variable Car Color: Select the column with the Car
variable, including the title of Car Color. Click on Insert, and then
Recommended Charts. It should show a clustered column and click OK. Once
the chart is shown, right click on the chart (main area) and select Change Chart
Type. Select Pie and OK. Click on the pie slices, right click Add Data Labels,
and select Add Data Callouts. Add an appropriate title. Copy and paste the
chart here.

Car Color of Students

white
3%
black
silver 20%
20%

red
11%
blue
26%
orange
3%

green dark blue

14% 3%

2. Create a histogram for the variable Height. You need to create a frequency
distribution for the data by hand. Use 5 classes, find the class width, and then
create the classes. Once you have the classes, count how many data points fall
within each class. It may be helpful to sort the data based on the Height variable
first. Create a new worksheet in Excel by clicking on the + along the bottom of
the screen and type in the categories and the frequency for each category. Then
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select the frequency table, click on Insert, then Recommended Charts and
choose the column chart shown and click OK. Right click on one of the bars and
select Format Data Series. In the pop up box, change the Gap Width to 0. Add
an appropriate title and axis label. Copy and paste the graph here.

Student's Height in Inches

14 13

12

10
# of Student's

8
8

6 5 5
4
4

0
61-63 64-66 67-69 70-72 73-75
Height in Inches

3. Type up a stem-and-leaf plot chart in the box below for the variable Money, with
a space between the stems and the group of leaves in each line. Use the tens value
as the stem and the ones value for the leaves. It may be helpful to sort the data
based on the Money variable first.
An example of a stem-and-leaf plot would look like this:

0 4 5 6 9 3
1 5 6 3 6
2 9 2

The stem-and-leaf plot shown above would be for data 4, 5, 6, 9, 3, 15, 16, 13, 16,
29, and 22.
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0 1344555666777789
1 03556
2 01369
3 123
4 347
5 23

Calculating Descriptive Statistics

4. Calculate descriptive statistics for the variable Height by Gender. Click on Insert
and then Pivot Table. Click in the top box and select all the data (including
labels) from Height through Gender. Also click on “new worksheet” and then
OK. On the right of the new sheet, click on Height and Gender, making sure
that Gender is in the Rows box and Height is in the Values box. Click on the
down arrow next to Height in the Values box and select Value Field Settings. In
the pop up box, click Average then OK. Type in the averages below. Then click
on the down arrow next to Height in the Values box again and select Value Field
Settings. In the pop up box, click on StdDev then OK. Type the standard
deviations below.

Mean Standard deviation

Females 67.05882353 3.111884241
Males 69.66666667 3.307744922

Short Answer Writing Assignment

All answers should be complete sentences.

5. What is the most common color of car for students who participated in this survey?
Explain how you arrived at your answer.

The most common color based upon the data received is blue. I created the pie chart
based upon the data given and I was able to see the visual presentation of the data and
concluded that the biggest piece of the pie was Blue at 26%
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6. What is seen in the histogram created for the heights of students in this class
(include the shape)? Explain your answer.

What we see in this histogram is the shape of a normal distribution. We see the spike in
heights around the average 67-69 inches tall. Having this histogram makes visually
seeing this data easier to quickly identify the trends of the height information collected.

7. What is seen in the stem and leaf plot for the money variable (include the shape)?
Explain your answer.

The shape we see is a J-shape for the data on this stem and leaf plot. This plot shows that
majority of the money received was $30.00 or less. I am able to quickly see that by
knowing that the number in the x column represents the 10 tens value and the numbers
in order in the y columns represent the ones value.

8. Compare the mean for the heights of males and the mean for the heights of females
in these data. Compare the values and explain what can be concluded based on the
numbers.

The mean in both male and female show that in comparison, they are roughly right next
to each other in the height and gender ratio. In both genders the average height in inches
show they peak between 67-69 inches. That is the exact mean range that we see.

9. Compare the standard deviation for the heights of males and the standard deviation
for the heights of females in the class. Compare the values and explain what can be
concluded based on the numbers.
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10. Using the empirical rule, 95% of female heights should be between what two
values? Either show work or explain how your answer was calculated.

11. Using the empirical rule, 68% of male heights should be between what two values?
Either show work or explain how your answer was calculated.
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Code Sheet
Do NOT answer these questions.

The Code Sheet just lists the variables name and the question used by the researchers on
the survey instrument that produced the data that are included in the data file. This is just
information. The questions for the Lab precede this code sheet.

Variable Name Question

Drive Question 1 – How long does it take you to drive to the school on
average (to the nearest minute)?
State Question 2 – What state/country were you born?
Temp Question 3 – What is the temperature outside right now?
Rank Question 4 – Rank all of the courses you are currently taking. The
class you look most forward to taking will be ranked one, next two,
and so on. What is the rank assigned to this class?
Height Question 5 – What is your height to the nearest inch?
Shoe Question 6 – What is your shoe size?
Sleep Question 7 – How many hours did you sleep last night?
Gender Question 8 – What is your gender?
Race Question 9 – What is your race?
Car Question 10 – What color of car do you drive?
TV Question 11 – How long (on average) do you spend a day watching
TV?
Money Question 12 – How much money do you have with you right now?
Coin Question 13 – Flip a coin 10 times. How many times did you get
tails?
Die1 Question 14 – Roll a six-sided die 10 times and record the results.
Die2
Die3
Die4
Die5
Die6
Die7
Die8
Die9
Die10