Stat 1000: Tips for Assignment 3
Published: Fri, 10/21/11
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Tips for Assignment 3 (Sections A01, A02, etc.)
You will need to study Lesson 4: Density Curves and the Normal Distribution in my book to prepare for the first three questions of the assignment (that would be Lesson 2 if you have an older edition of my study book). You also need to study Lesson 5: Introduction to Probability to prepare for the rest of the assignment.
To learn Lesson 4 and do this assignment, you need Table A
from the textbook. That can be downloaded from the Resources section
of Stats Portal. Here is a direct link to download this table:
Table A
Questions 1 and 2 are very similar to the concepts I teach in questions 5, 6 and 7 in Lesson 4.
Question 3 is a good run-through of X-Bell curve concepts taught in the latter half of Lesson 4.
I recommend you use a Venn diagram to help solve question 4. I teach you how to make and work with Venn diagrams at the end of Lesson 5.
Question 5 is very similar to my question 4 in Lesson 5.
Study Lesson 4 in my study book (Density Curves and the Normal Distribution; in older editions of my book this is Lesson 2) to learn the concepts involved in Assignment 3.
To learn this lesson and do this assignment, you need Table A from the textbook. That can be downloaded from the Resources section of Stats Portal. Here is a direct link to download this table:
Table A
Questions 1 and 2 are just like my
questions 5 and 6 in Lesson 4. Note, a "cumulative proportion" is a
left area on the bell curve. Put another way, cumulative proportion is
P(Z < z).
Question 3 is a good run through of X-bell curve problems that I teach in the latter half of Lesson 4.
For the JMP part of the assignment, here are some tips:
Open a "New Data Table" in JMP. To copy and
paste the data into JMP, in the toolbar at top select "Edit" then "Paste
with Column Names". Double-click the "gpa" column heading and make
sure the Data Type is Numeric and the Modeling Type is Continuous, using
the drop-down menus to fix that if necessary. Double-click the "sex"
column heading and make sure the Data Type is Character and the Modeling
Type is Nominal, using the drop-down menus to fix that if necessary.
Click OK.
To get side-by-side boxplots: In the
toolbar at the top, select Analyze then select Fit Y By X. In the
pop-up menu, highlight the gpa column and click the "Y, Response"
button. Highlight the sex column and click the "X, Factor" button.
Click OK. You will then see a graph with a vertical array of dots for
the males (1) and the females (2). Click the red triangle next to
"Oneway Analysis ..." and select "Display Options". You will then be
able to select "Box Plots" in the Display Options sub-menu. They want you to remove the Grand Mean line, so click the red triangle again and select Display Options and deselect Grand Mean.
To get normal quantile plots: They want you to make a normal quantile plot for the males and a separate plot for the females. In
the toolbar at the top, select "Analyze" , then "Distribution". In the
pop-up menu, highlight "gpa" and click "Y, Column". Highlight "sex"
and click "By". Click OK. You now see separate histograms for the
males and for the females. Click the red triangle next to "gpa" for
both the males and for the females, and select "Normal Quantile Plot" to
get a separate normal quantile plot for the males and females.
A normal quantile plot checks to see if a
sample's distribution appears to be normal. If the data follows a
normal distribution, the normal quantile plot will look like a rising
diagonal line. If the plot looks curved rather than linear, there is
evidence the data is not normal. However, none of that seems to matter
in your question, all they ask is which students are clear outliers,
which, personally, I think is much easier to see from your side-by-side
boxplots than from your normal quantile plots.