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> In Exercise 8 you were asked to compare the responses of college presidents and all U.S. adults to the question about the value of a college education. To examine that question further, we randomly scrambled the responses and created 15 new mosaic plots

> Suppose you were to collect data for each pair of variables. You want to make a scatterplot. Which variable would you use as the explanatory variable and which as the response variable? Why? What would you expect to see in the scatterplot? Discuss the li

> A company customer service hotline handles many calls relating to orders, refunds, and other issues. The company records indicate that the median length of calls to the hotline is 4.4 minutes with an IQR of 2.3 minutes. 1. If the company were to describe

> A company selling clothing on the Internet reports that the packages it ships have a median weight of 68 ounces and an IQR of 40 ounces. 1. The company plans to include a sales flyer weighing 4 ounces in each package. What will the new median and IQR be?

> An incoming freshman took her college placement exams in French and mathematics. In French, she scored 82 and in math 86. The overall results on the French exam had a mean of 72 and a standard deviation of 8, while the mean math score was 68, with a stan

> A town January high temperatures average 36 with a standard deviation of 10, while in July the mean high temperature is 74 and the standard deviation is 8. In which month is it more unusual to have a day with a high temperature of 55? Explain.

> People with z-scores above 2.5 on an IQ test are sometimes classified as geniuses. If IQ scores have a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 points, what IQ score do you need to be considered a genius?

> The histogram shows the distribution of mean ACT composite scores for all Wisconsin public schools in 2015. 80.1% of the data points fall between one standard deviation below the mean and one standard deviation above the mean. 1. Give two reasons that a

> Corey has 4929 songs in his computer music library. The lengths of the songs have a mean of 242.4 seconds and standard deviation of 114.51 seconds. A Normal probability plot of the song lengths looks like this: 1. Do you think the distribution is Normal?

> The mean household income in the U.S. in 2014 was about $72,641 and the standard deviation was about $85,000. (The median income was $51,939.) If we used the Normal model for these incomes, 1. What would be the household income of the top 1%? 2. How conf

> The Mathematics section of the ACT test had a mean of 20.9 and an SD of 5.3 for the years 2013 2015. If these are well modeled by a Normal distribution, about what percent of students scored 1. over 31? 2. under 18? 3. between 18 and 31?

> Based on the Normal model N(100,15) describing IQ scores, what percent of people IQs would you expect to be 1. over 80? 2. under 90? 3. between 112 and 132?

> In Exercise 5 you were asked whether you thought the differences in political identification across diet preferences were real. To examine that question further, we randomly scrambled the students politics preferences and created 8 new bar charts of thes

> The Virginia Cooperative Extension reports that the mean weight of yearling Angus steers is 1152 pounds. Suppose that weights of all such animals can be described by a Normal model with a standard deviation of 84 pounds. What percent of steers weigh 1. o

> Suppose your statistics professor reports test grades as z-scores, and you got a score of 2.20 on an exam. 1. Write a sentence explaining what that means. 2. Your friend got a z-score of 1. If the grades satisfy the Nearly Normal Condition, about what pe

> One of the authors has an adopted grandson whose birth family members are very short. After examining him at his 2-year checkup, the boy pediatrician said that the z-score for his height relative to American 2-year-olds was 1.88. Write a sentence explain

> Some IQ tests are standardized to a Normal model, with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. 1. Draw the model for these IQ scores. Clearly label it, showing what the 68 95 99.7 Rule predicts. 2. In what interval would you expect the central 95%

> The mean score on the Stats exam was 75 points with a standard deviation of 5 points, and Gregor z-score was −2. How many points did he score?

> Here is a timeplot of each monthly load factor for domestic flights for 2000 to 2013 along with a lowess smooth. 1. Describe the patterns you see in this plot. 2. Do you expect the overall pattern to continue for another decade? Why or why not?

> The boxplots of exercise 6 show a single possible outlier. But that month in 2015 would not be an outlier in any of the other months in the display. Do you think it should still be considered an outlier? Explain your reasoning.

> Look at the boxplots by month in Exercise 5. The low outlier in April is for April of 2003. At that time, there was concern over the deadly SARS virus, which may have depressed international travel. Do you think the data for April 2003 should be set asid

> Here is a display of the domestic load factors by year through 2017: Discuss the patterns you see in this display.

> Here is a display of the international load factors by month for the period from 2002 to 2017: Discuss the patterns you see in this display.

> A study by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center examined 626 people to see if an increased risk of contracting hepatitis C was associated with having a tattoo. If the subject had a tattoo, researchers asked whether it had been done in a co

> In a way, boxplots are the opposite of histograms. A histogram divides the number line into equal intervals and displays the number of data values in each interval. A boxplot divides the data into equal parts and displays the portion of the number line e

> The boxplot shows the fuel economy ratings for 67 model year 2012 subcompact cars. Some summary statistics are also provided. The extreme outlier is the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, an electric car whose electricity usage is equivalent to 112 miles per gallon. If

> We can also compare domestic load factors for September through March versus those for April through August: Compare and contrast what these histograms show.

> Here are the exoplanet distances of Exercise 11, re-expressed to the log scale: 1. Is this a better scale to understand these distances? 2. The low outlier is sol that is, it is the distance of the sun from the earth. Do you think it belongs with these d

> Discoveries of planets beyond our solar system have grown rapidly. Here is a histogram showing the distance (in light-years) from earth to stars that have known planets (as of 2016): Explain why it might be beneficial to re-express these distances.

> Here is a timeplot of the same domestic load factors as in Exercise 9, but this time with a different smoother (called a median smoother) applied. 1. What can you see in the time plot with the smoother that you might have missed in the original time plot

> The Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (www.TranStats.bts.gov/Data_Elements.aspx?Data=2) reports load factors (passenger-miles as a percentage of available seat-miles) for commercial airlines for

> Are the patterns seen in Exercises 5 and 6 relating diet to political opinion the same for men and women? Here are two contingency tables: 1. Are women or men more likely to be conservative carnivores? 2. Are liberal vegetarians more likely to be women o

> Here is a mosaic plot of the data from Exercise 1 on whether college provides value from a survey of U.S. adults and college presidents: 1. From the mosaic plot, about what percent of the respondents were college presidents? 2. Is it easy to see from the

> Here is a mosaic plot of the data on Fish consumption and Prostate cancer from the Step-by-Step Example on page 71. 1. From the mosaic plot, about what percent of all men in this survey were diagnosed with prostate cancer? 2. Are there more men who had c

> The table below shows the number of licensed U.S. drivers (in millions) by age and by sex in 2014. (www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm) 1. What percent of total drivers are under 20? 2. What percent of total drivers are male? 3. Write a fe

> Here are the same data as in Exercise 5 but displayed differently: 1. Describe what this plot shows using the concept of a conditional distribution. 2. Do you think the differences here are real? Explain.

> The A survey of 299 undergraduate students from Exercise 86 in Chapter 2 (data in Student survey) asked about respondents diet preference (Carnivore, Omnivore, Vegetarian) and political alignment (Liberal, Moderate, Conservative). Here is a stacked bar c

> 1. Find the conditional distribution (in percent’s) of income distribution for those who do not cyber compare prices. 2. Find the conditional distribution (in percent’s) of incomes for shoppers who do cyber compare prices.

> Consider the survey data in Exercise 1. 1. What is the conditional distribution (in percents) of college presidents opinions about the value of college? 2. Find the conditional distribution of the opinions of U.S. adults when the categories are combined

> It has become common for shoppers to comparison shop using the Internet. Respondents to a Pew survey in 2013 who owned cell phones were asked whether they had, in the past 30 days, looked up the price of a product while they were in a store to see if the

> In a random sample of U.S. adults surveyed in December 2011, Pew Research asked how important it is to you personally to be successful in a high-paying career or profession. Here is a table reporting the responses. (Percentages may not add to 100% due to

> The Pew Research Center asked 2143 U.S. adults and 1055 college presidents to rate the job the higher education system is doing in providing value for the money spent by students and their families as Excellent, Good, Only Fair, or Poor. 1. What percent

> A study of body fat on 250 men collected measurements of 12 body parts as well as the percentage of body fat that the men carried. Here is a dot plot of their bicep circumferences (in inches). What does the dot plot say about the distribution of the size

> Here are the same histograms as in Exercise 7. However, the two groups of fatalities have been highlighted, and the corresponding bars in the Year histogram are also highlighted. 1. How many years are included in the highlighted bar in the Passenger car

> Here are two histograms showing the annual number of traffic fatalities in passenger cars. (NHTSA) One plots the years, and the other plots the fatalities. 1. There are gaps in the histogram for Year. What do they indicate? 2. Why are all the bars in the

> For a period of five years, physicians at McGill University Health Center followed more than 5000 adults over the age of 50. The researchers were investigating whether people taking a certain class of antidepressants (SSRIs) might be at greater risk of b

> Changing attitudes about marriage and families prompted Pew Research to ask how people felt about particular recent trends. (pewresearch.org/pubs/1802/decline-marriage-rise-new-families) For each trend, participants were asked whether the trend is a good

> The ratings of the 20 top-grossing movies in the years 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2014 are shown in the following bar charts. The pie charts show the same data but are unlabeled. Match each pie chart with the correct year. (Data extracted from Movies 06-15)

> The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates each film to designate the appropriate audience. The ratings are G, PG, PG-13, and R. The pie chart shows the MPAA ratings of the same 891 movies released in 2014 and 2015 as in Exercise 3. (Data ext

> For the shoe sizes in Exercise 16, what might be the problem with either the standard deviation or the IQR as a measure of spread?

> For the bicep measurements in Exercise 10, would you report the standard deviation or the IQR? Explain briefly.

> For the number of adoptions in Exercise 12, 1. Would you report the standard deviation or the IQR? 2. Justify your answer briefly.

> For the 190 life expectancies in Exercise 15, 1. Would you report the standard deviation or the IQR? 2. Justify your answer briefly.

> For the shoe sizes in Exercise 16, what might be the problem with either the mean or the median as a measure of center?

> The frequencies of traffic fatalities of non-occupants of vehicles are shown in the following bar chart. (www.the-numbers.com/research-analysis) Change this to a bar chart of relative frequencies.

> Hearing anecdotal reports that some patients undergoing treatment for the eating disorder anorexia seemed to be responding positively to the antidepressant Prozac, medical researchers conducted an experiment to investigate. They found 93 women being trea

> For the bicep measurements in Exercise 10, would you report the mean, the median, or both? Explain briefly.

> For the number of adoptions in Exercise 12, 1. Which would you expect to be larger: the median or the mean? Explain briefly. 2. Which would you report: the mean or the median? Explain briefly.

> For the 146 life expectancies in Exercise 15, 1. Which would you expect to be larger: the median or the mean? Explain briefly. 2. Which would you report: the mean or the median? Explain briefly.

> A last is a form, traditionally made of wood, in the shape of the human foot. Lasts of various sizes are used by shoemakers to make shoes. In the United States, shoe sizes are defined differently for men and women: U.S. men shoe size =(last size in inche

> Here are the life expectancies at birth in 190 countries (2014) as collected by the World Health Organization. 1. Describe the shape. 2. How many modes do you see?

> For the distribution of e-mails sent by students in Exercise 11, describe the shape.

> Describe the shape of the distribution of bicep circumferences (in inches) for the 250 men in the study of Exercise 10.

> The U.S. Census Bureau keeps track of the number of adoptions in each state (and Washington, DC). (www.census.gov) The upper histogram shows the distribution of adoptions. The lower histogram shows the population of each state (and DC). 1. What do the hi

> A university teacher saved every e-mail received from students in a large introductory statistics class during an entire term. He then counted, for each student who had sent him at least one e-mail, how many e-mails each student had sent. What does the h

> The study in Exercise 9 actually measured the bicep circumference in centimeters. The dot plot in Exercise 9 was formed by dividing each measurement by 2.54 to convert it to inches. Here is the dot plot of the original values in cm. Do the two dot plots

> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that 19.8% of Americans over 15 years old are obese. The CDC conducts a survey on obesity and various behaviors. Here is a table on self-reported exercise classified by body mass index (B

> The table gives the numbers of passenger car occupants killed in accidents in 2011 by car type. Convert this table to a relative frequency table.

> Load the Indy 500 2018 data into your preferred statistics package and answer the following questions: 1. What was the average speed of the winner in 1920? 2. How many times did Bill Vukovich win the race in the 1950s? 3. How many races took place during

> Load the Kentucky Derby 2018 data into your preferred statistics package and answer the following questions; 1. What was the name of the winning horse in 1880? 2. When did the length of the race change? 3. What was the winning time in 1974? 4. Only one h

> The 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been the home to a race on Memorial Day nearly every year since 1911. Even during the first race, there were controversies. Ralph Mulford was given the checkered flag first but took three extra laps just to ma

> The Kentucky Derby is a horse race that has been run every year since 1875 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race started as a 1.5-mile race, but in 1896, it was shortened to 1.25 miles because experts felt that 3-year-old horses shouldn’t

> People who get lost in the desert, mountains, or woods often seem to wander in circles rather than walk in straight lines. To see whether people naturally walk in circles in the absence of visual clues, researcher Andrea Axtell tested 32 people on a foot

> In 2013, Consumer Reports published an article evaluating refrigerators. It listed 353 models, giving the brand, cost, size (cu ft), type (such as top freezer), estimated annual energy cost, an overall rating (good, excellent, etc.), and the repair histo

> The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tracks fuel economy of automobiles based on information from the manufacturers (Ford, Toyota, etc.). Among the data the agency collects are the manufacturer, vehicle type (car, SUV, etc.), weight, horsepower, and

> In performing research for an ecology class, students at a college in upstate New York collect data on streams each year. They record a number of biological, chemical, and physical variables, including the stream name, the substrate of the stream (limest

> Business analysts hoping to provide information helpful to American grape growers compiled these data about vineyards: size (acres), number of years in existence, state, varieties of grapes grown, average case price, gross sales, and percent profit.

> A company held a blood pressure screening clinic for its employees. The results are summarized in the table below by Age and Blood pressure: 1. Find the marginal distribution of blood pressure level. 2. Find the conditional distribution of blood pressure

> Scientists at a major pharmaceutical firm conducted an experiment to study the effectiveness of an herbal compound to treat the common cold. They exposed each patient to a cold virus, then gave them either the herbal compound or a sugar solution known to

> In a study appearing in the journal Science, a research team reports that plants in southern England are flowering earlier in the spring. Records of the first flowering dates for 385 species over a period of 47 years show that flowering has advanced an a

> Medical researchers at a large city hospital investigating the impact of prenatal care on newborn health collected data from 882 births during 1998 2000. They kept track of the mother age, the number of weeks the pregnancy lasted, the type of birth (cesa

> The Gallup Poll conducted a representative telephone survey of 1180 American voters during the first quarter of 2007. Among the reported results were the voter region (Northeast, South, etc.), age, party affiliation, and whether or not the person had vot

> A listing posted by the Arby restaurant chain gives, for each of the sandwiches it sells, the type of meat in the sandwich, the number of calories, and the serving size in ounces. The data might be used to assess the nutritional value of the different sa

> The State Education Department requires local school districts to keep these records on all students: age, race or ethnicity, days absent, current grade level, standardized test scores in reading and mathematics, and any disabilities or special education

> Because of the difficulty of weighing a bear in the woods, researchers caught and measured 54 bears, recording their weight, neck size, length, and sex. They hoped to find a way to estimate weight from the other, more easily determined quantities.

> The Cleveland Casting Plant is a large, highly automated producer of gray and nodular iron automotive castings for Ford Motor Company. The company is interested in keeping the pouring temperature of the molten iron (in degrees Fahrenheit) close to the sp

> A look at 474 participants in the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging found that participants who drank two or more diet sodas a day experienced waist size increases six times greater than those of people who didn’t drink diet soda. (J Am Geriatr Soc

> A study begun in 2011 examines the use of stem cells in treating two forms of blindness, Stargardt disease and dry age-related macular degeneration. Each of the 24 patients entered one of two separate trials in which embryonic stem cells were to be used

> In 2000, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study that examined pregnancies that resulted in the birth of twins. Births were classified as preterm with intervention (induced labor or cesarean), preterm without procedures,

> Coffee stations in offices often just ask users to leave money in a tray to pay for their coffee, but many people cheat. Researchers at Newcastle University alternately taped two posters over the coffee station. During one week, it was a picture of flowe

> Some companies offer 401(k) retirement plans to employees, permitting them to shift part of their before-tax salaries into investments such as mutual funds. Employers typically match 50% of the employees contribution up to about 6% of salary. One company

> Ian Walker, a psychologist at the University of Bath, wondered whether drivers treat bicycle riders differently when they wear helmets. He rigged his bicycle with an ultrasonic sensor that could measure how close each car was that passed him. He then rod

> The hula-hoop, a popular children toy in the 1950s, has gained popularity as an exercise in recent years. But does it work? To answer this question, the American Council on Exercise conducted a study to evaluate the cardio and calorie-burning benefits of

> A study conducted by a team of American and Canadian researchers found that during ovulation, a woman can tell whether a man is gay or straight by looking at his face. To explore the subject, the authors conducted three investigations, the first of which

> Find an Internet source that reports on a study and describes the data. Print out the description and identify as many of the W as you can.

> Find a newspaper or magazine article in which some data are reported. For the data discussed in the article, identify as many of the W as you can. Include a copy of the article with your report.

> Meteorologists utilize sophisticated models to predict the weather up to ten days in advance. Give an example of how they might assess their models.

> Pollsters are interested in predicting the outcome of elections. Give an example of how they might model whether someone is likely to vote.

> A medical researcher measures the increase in heart rate of patients who are taking a stress test. What kind of variable is the researcher studying?

> Just how accurate are the weather forecasts we hear every day? The following table compares the daily forecast with a city actual weather for a year: 1. On what percent of days did it actually rain? 2. On what percent of days was rain predicted? 3. What