Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Undergraduate Major
Business Engineering Others
Total
Yes
No
35
91
42
104
63
65
140
260
Total
126
146
128
400
a. Are a majority of the seniors in the survey planning to attend graduate school?
b. Which discipline constitutes the majority of the individuals in the survey?
c. Compute row percentages and comment on the relationship between the students undergraduate major and their intention of attending graduate school.
d. Compute the column percentages and comment on the relationship between the
students intention of going to graduate school and their undergraduate major.
4. The growth rates in the population of Atlanta for the past five years are shown
below.
Year
Growth factors
1
2
3
4
5
1.0298
1.0270
1.0319
1.0258
1.0304
Identification Number
Classification
Gender
Rank in Class
Adam
Brandon
Jason
Marissa
Michelle
Wendy
Webster
1234
8978
6578
2345
8901
7789
6780
2.89
2.01
3.97
3.98
2.67
4.00
3.77
Senior
Junior
Freshman
Sophomore
Senior
Senior
Freshman
Male
Male
Male
Female
Female
Female
Male
15
25
3
2
18
1
4
99
72
58
75
92
76
65
74
1
86
95
79
56
84
88
80
99
47
39
35
44
34
20
15
30
1
3
5
3
6
8
16
6
a. Compute and interpret the sample covariance for the above data.
b. Compute and interpret the sample correlation coefficient.
4. Consider a sample with the following data values.
462
490
350
294
574
a. Compute the standardized values for the above five observations.
5. An experiment consists of throwing two six-sided dice and observing the number of spots on the upper faces. Determine the probability that
a. the sum of the spots is 3.
b. each die shows four or more spots.
c. the sum of the spots is not 3.
d. neither a one nor a six appear on each die.
e. a pair of sixes appear.
f. the sum of the spots is 7.
6. A very short quiz has one multiple choice question with five possible choices (a,
b, c, d, e) and one true or false question. Assume you are taking the quiz but do
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not have any idea what the correct answer is to either question, but you mark an
answer anyway.
a. What is the probability that you have given the correct answer to both questions?
b. What is the probability that only one of the two answers is correct?
c. What is the probability that neither answer is correct?
d. What is the probability that only your answer to the multiple choice question is
correct?
e. What is the probability that you have only answered the true or false question
correctly?
7. As in the case of Problem Set #1, download Nobel.dta from LATTE. Again,
open this data set in Stata and create a new variable, called Age, which records an
individuals age at which he or she received the award. (You should use a command called generate. As an example, if you wish to generate a new variable,
var1, which is equal to the difference between var2 and var3, you should type
generate var1 = var2 - var3.)
a. Use your responses from Problem Set #1 to calculate the range of age at award.
b. Use your responses from Problem Set #1 to calculate the interquartile range of
age at award.
c. Calculate the variance of age at award (type summarize Age, detail).
d. Calculate the standard deviation of age at award (type summarize Age).
e. Calculate the covariance of YOA and Age (type correlate YOA Age, covariance).
f. Calculate the correlation coefficient of YOA and Age (type correlate YOA Age).
Comment on the relationship between these two variables. What does it mean that
these two variables are related in this specific way?