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Statistical Analysis Tasks Guide

This document provides instructions for 5 formative assessment tasks analyzing survey and sample data. Students are asked to create frequency distributions, contingency tables, histograms, scatter plots, and other graphs to summarize different datasets measuring things like apartment electricity costs, barbecue preferences, and chocolate bar prices. The goal is for students to practice using statistical software to analyze and visualize various types of real world data.

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Statistical Analysis Tasks Guide

This document provides instructions for 5 formative assessment tasks analyzing survey and sample data. Students are asked to create frequency distributions, contingency tables, histograms, scatter plots, and other graphs to summarize different datasets measuring things like apartment electricity costs, barbecue preferences, and chocolate bar prices. The goal is for students to practice using statistical software to analyze and visualize various types of real world data.

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Fin3154 (Statistical Analysis w/Software Application)

First Semester, AY 2020-2021

Formative Assessment Task 2


General Direction: Write all your answers in separate sheet of paper.
1. The following data represent the responses to two questions asked in a survey of 40 college students
majoring in business: What is your gender? (M = male; F = female) and What is your major? (A =
Accounting; C = Computer Information Systems; M = Marketing):
a. Tally the data into a contingency table where the two rows represent the gender categories and the
three columns represent the academic major categories.
b. Construct contingency tables based on percentages of all 40 student responses, based on row
percentages and based on column percentages.

2. The file contains the data in the next column about the cost of electricity for a random sample of 50
one-bedroom apartments in a large city.
a. Construct a frequency distribution and a percentage distribution that have class intervals with the
upper-class boundaries $99, $119, and so on.
b. Construct a cumulative percentage distribution.
c. Construct a histogram and a percentage polygon.
d. Construct a cumulative percentage polygon
e. Around what amount does the monthly electricity cost seem to be concentrated?

3. A study of 1,000 people asked what respondents wanted to grill during barbecue season. The results
were as follows:

a. Construct a bar chart, a pie chart, and a Pareto chart.


b. Which graphical method do you think is best for portraying these data?
c. What conclusions can you reach concerning what folks want sizzling on the grill during barbecue
season?

4. The file contains the cost per ounce ($) for a sample of 14 dark chocolate bars:

a. Construct an ordered array.


b. Construct a stem-and-leaf display.
c. Does the ordered array or the stem-and-leaf display provide more information? Discuss.
d. Around what value, if any, is the cost of dark chocolate bars concentrated? Explain.

5. The following is a set of data from a sample of n=11 items:

a. Construct a scatter plot.


b. Is there a relationship between X and Y? Explain.

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