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STAT 263 ASSIGNMENT 1: Chapter 1 & 2 Some suggested questions V1.

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"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect
it, there will be fish."
~ Ovid

You will revisit some of these data sets and situations in future assignments. Note that I will use "bins"
and "classes" interchangeably, so "bin-width" and "class interval" are the same thing.

1. Creatine phosphokinase (CK) is an enzyme related to muscle and brain function in humans. As part
of a study to determine the variability of CK levels in males, CK levels of 34 randomly chosen males
were obtained. The values are given below.
121 82 100 151 68 58 95 145 64 101 163 84 57
139 60 78 94 119 104 110 113 118 62 83 67 93
92 110 25 123 70 48 95 42

Construct a stem and leaf display for this data using the tens digits as the stems.

2. Many statistical studies compare two groups that have been treated differently. The data below
are weight gains (in grams) for 20 chicks fed an experimental corn and 20 chicks fed the
standard corn.

Experimental Corn Standard Corn


361 434 406 427 430 380 283 356 350 345
447 403 318 420 339 321 349 410 384 455
401 393 467 477 410 366 402 329 316 360
375 426 407 392 326 356 462 399 272 431

Construct a back-to-back stem plot for this data: the stems will be down the center of your
diagram, with the leaves for one sample going out to the left of the stems, and the leaves for the
other sample going out to the right. (I recommend using split stems with five stems used to
represent each 100 values. One stem could contain values in the range 260-279, the next stem
would have 280-299, then 300-319, and so on.) Comment on the resulting plot.

In the questions below, "text" refers to Modern Elementary Statistics, Freund, 12th edition.
The necessary pages from the text to do the homework are available from the Campus
Bookstore.
3. Page 19 in text. Do questions 2.5 and 2.9

4. Page 27 in text. Do questions 2.23, 2.25, and 2.27 In 2.25, omit part a) which asks for only 4
bins or categories. We always want 5 of more bins.
5. Page 28 in text. Do questions 2.28, 2.29, 2.31, 2.32, 2.36, 2.37 and 2.38

6. Page 34/5 in text. Construct a histogram for the data given in 2.53. Note that 4 bins are fewer
than we would want to use in practice (we always want 5 or more bins), but is sufficient for our
purposes here.

7. Below is question 2.75 from the 11th edition of the text. This topic was dropped from the
12th edition but is still part of our course.

For the following data, produce a two-way frequency table AND a two-way relative frequency
table using the classes 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, and 25-29 for x and the classes 15-19, 20-24, and
25-29 for y. You start by doing tally marks and then convert the tally marks to frequencies. The
first data value in the raw data is x = 15 and y = 16. This represents a tally mark that falls in the X
= 15-19 column AND the Y = 15-19 row of the Joint Frequency table. It is arbitrary which
variable you display vertically and which you display horizontally, but if you want your
diagram to look like the one in the solution set you should display x across the page with the
smaller values at the left, and y up and down with the smaller values at the top. (See last
page of the solution set if you have already spent more that 10 minutes on this question and
are not sure how to do it.)

NOTE: The way the data is presented has caused some confusion. The data lists the first 15
students in the left two columns and the last 15 students in the right two columns but there is no
distinction between the two groups and the data was presented in this way just to save paper. The
data could have been presented as two 30-data- value columns headed x and y.

Morning Afternoon Morning Afternoon


x y x y
15 16 18 21
21 28 25 23
17 22 13 19
23 23 20 24
23 17 16 26
12 17 24 25
28 25 18 27
23 26 22 28
16 24 27 25
25 29 19 18
22 21 23 22
21 20 14 22
17 15 26 26
21 29 24 21
22 18 19 23

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