Megan Feldpausch, Tyler Piggott, Cole George

Sarah Lewis

Statistics

6 November 2018

Sleepy, Snoring Students

For chapter 3, we were taught about means, medians, modes, ranges, and a

whole bunch of other ways to arrange data and observe it. Our group of three decided

to send out a survey to the freshmen and the seniors about how much sleep they get on

an average night. We thought it might have been interesting to compare the two classes

because of the amount of demand that is required of each of them at school, which

possibly could affect their sleep schedule. Instead of mashing all 50 numbers together,

we took the freshmen and analysed them, then the seniors and analyzed them, and

then did them together. We did this because we wanted to see how they differed, as

well as how they fit together.

The mean of a data set shows the average amount of sleep the class gets as a

whole. The median of our data set shows the hours of sleep on the very middle of our

data set. The mode of our data set shows the number that occured the most in our data

set. The range of our data shows the highest and lowest data in our data set. Our mean,

median, mode, and range for the freshman was as follows: 6.9, 7, 8, 7. The seniors

mean, median, mode, and range were: 6.8, 7, 7, 9. They had a combined mean,

median, mode, and range: 6.8, 7, 7, 9. This data was not as spread out as we had

hoped it to be, however it is good to note that many students sleep within the healthy

range of hours.
 The interquartile range is to sdow the difference between the middle of the upper

and lower portions of our data set. The outliers in a data set are numbers that are way

bigger or smaller than the rest of the data. The interquartile range for the freshmen was

3 and the freshmen didn’t have any outliers in their data set. The interquartile range for

the seniors was 2 and the outliers were :3,2,11. However, due to the program we were

using to make the box and whisker plots, we were unable to add outliers the the graph.

The interquartile range for both groups combined was 3 and the total group didn’t have

any outliers.

Trimmed mean is to show our data set without any large numbers, and th make it

seem less spread out. Our 5% trimmed mean for the freshmen was 6.9, for the seniors

it was 6.8, and combined it was 6.9. For the 10% in each category the numbers

remained the same. Again, the data was not spread out so the mean did not change,

however it is good that these students get a good amount of sleep.

The variance of the freshmen, seniors, and combined are as follows: 3.20, 4.03,

3.53. Standard deviation is: 1.79, 2.007, 1.88. Coefficient of variation is: 26%, 29.5%,

27.6%. Again, these are tools to show the spread of data, however the data itself was

not very spread out so there was not a lot of difference in the numbers.

Chebyshev for freshmen is : @75%= .50-13.30, @88.9%= -2.70 to 16.50,

@93.8%= -5.90 to 19.70. Chebyshev for Seniors is : @75%= 3.04 to 10.56 ,@88.9%=

1.16 to 12.44,@93.8%= -0.72 to 14.32. Commented [1]: What do these numbers mean?
Commented [2]: Your graphs look great! It's nice to
see them all lined up for comparison.