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These guided exercises will give you the opportunity to practice the

techniques and apply the concepts you learned in Chapter 1. You


will need some paper, spreadsheet, or a tablet to work on the
analyses.

1. Say you surveyed students and employees at Douglas college


regarding how many hours per month they listen to the radio.
These are the data you collect:

Students: 15,13,17,20,15,18,11,2,14,10,14,10,15,11,1

Employees: 27,25,20,4,12,27,15,14,25,15,27,18,23,15,24

a. How would you portray these data to allow someone to quickly see
patterns?
 Use a bar graph
 Use a pie chart
 Use a frequency table listing every possible value
 Use a histogram
 Use a grouped frequency table
b. Which variable here is a categorical variable and which one is numeric?
 Students vs employees is a numeric variable.
 Students vs employees is a categorical variable.
 Number of radio hours per month is a numeric variable.
 Number of radio hours per month is a categorical variable.

d. Create graphs below, by dragging and dropping chart elements,


to represent first the student and then the employee data. Be sure
to label axes and title the graphs appropriately.

2. For each of the following types of data, indicate the level of


measurement and the corresponding type of graph that would
be suitable:
a. You collect information on personality from a number of patients in a
cardiology ward. You find that 50% fit the description of a neurotic personality,
30% are introverted, and 20% are highly open to new experiences.
 pie chart
 numeric
 histogram
 nominal
 bar graph

b. You are analyzing data from the census regarding the number of children
per household in Canada. You find out that in one small geographical area,
1000 families have 1 child, 1500 families have 2 children, 300 families have 3
children, and 500 families have no children.
 bar graph
 pie chart
 numeric
 nominal
 histogram
c. You are curious about the ethnic mix of students at a local school and
discover that of 500 students, 100 are East Asian, 200 are South Asian, 150
are White and 50 are Pacific Islanders.
 pie chart
 nominal
 histogram
 bar graph
 numeric
1. Data collected from hospital records reveal that the age of first
hospitalization for psychosis for a sample of patients are:

18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 28, 28, 29, 32, 37, 39

a. Calculate the variance for this dataset using the formula below.

1. Take the distance (“deviation”) of each score from the


mean
2. Square each distance to get rid of the sign (because some
deviations will be negative)
3. Add up all the resulting “squared deviations” to get Sum of
Squares (SS)
4. Divide by the number of scores

What is the variance of the dataset?


 SD2 = 26.5
 SD2 = 6.22
 SD2 = 503.25
 SD2 = 38.71

The number of years of education for most members of the sample in the
study of psychosis onset were:

6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12, 13, 13, 13, 15, 16

a. Calculate the variance for this dataset using the formula below.

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