ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
Stat 2131: Basic statistics WORKSHEET I

Assignment question: 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11

Instruction

 Do the assignment individually or in group with maximum of 7 students.

 Do not use computer to write i.e. only hand written is accepted.
 Do not copy from others. There will be a reduction of point for copying.
 Every student in a group must participate and there will be follow up question for every
student after submitting.

Deadline: Final submission date August 10, 2021

1. Distinguish the following statistical terms with examples:

a) Descriptive Vs Inferential statistics e) Quantitative Vs Qualitative variables
b) Sample Vs Population f) Continuous Vs Discrete variables
c) Parameter Vs Statistic g) Nominal Vs Ordinal scales of measurements
d) Census Vs Sample survey h) Interval Vs Ratio scales of measurements
2. What are the Classifications of Statistics? Give examples in each case.
3. What is variable? What types of variables are there?
4. Write at least three uses and limitations of statistics.
5. In each of these statements, tell whether descriptive or inferential statistics have been used.
a) By 2040 at least 3.5 billion people will run short of water (World Future Society).
b) Nine out of ten on-the-job fatalities are men (Source: USA TODAY Weekend).
c) Expenditures for the cable industry were $5.66 billion in 1996 (Source: USA TODAY).
d) The median household income for people aged 25–34 is $35,888 (Source: USA TODAY)
e) Allergy therapy makes bees go away (Source: Prevention).
f) The national average annual medicine expenditure per person is $1052 (Source: The
Greensburg Tribune Review).
g) Experts say that mortgage rates may soon hit bottom (Source: USA TODAY ).
6. Classify each of the following first as qualitative and quantitative and second as nominal,
ordinal, interval and ratio measure.
a. Monthly income of persons.
b. Socio-economic status of a family when classified as low, middle and upper class.
c. Regions of Ethiopia.
 d. Categories of magazines in a physician’s office (sports, women’s, health, men’s, and
news).
a. Temperature inside 10 refrigerators.
b. Classification of marital status as single, married, divorced and widowed.
6. A survey taken in a restaurant shows that the following number of cups of coffee consumed
with each meal. Construct an ungrouped frequency distribution for the following data.
0 2 2 1 1 2
3 5 3 2 2 2
1 0 1 2 4 2
0 1 0 1 4 4
2 2 0 1 1 5
7. What are the advantage and disadvantage of Face-to-Face interview with questionnaire?
8. The investigator was interested in studying the marital status, which is often grouped as
𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑆 , 𝐷𝑖𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 (𝐷), 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 (𝑀), 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 (𝑊) of people in a certain
town. The following data were obtained.
𝐷 𝑆 𝐷 𝐷 𝑆 𝑊 𝑆 𝐷 𝑆 𝑆 𝐷 𝐷 𝑊 𝑀 𝑀 𝑆 𝐷 𝐷 𝐷 𝑊𝑀𝑆 𝑆 𝑊𝑀𝐷 𝐷𝑀𝐷 𝑊𝐷𝑆𝑆𝑊𝐷𝐷
𝑆 𝐷 𝑆 𝑀 𝑊 𝑀 𝐷 𝑆 𝐷 𝑊 𝐷 𝑀 𝑆 𝑆 𝐷 𝑊 𝑊 𝑆 𝑆 𝑆 𝑊 𝑆 𝐷 𝑀 𝑊 𝑆 𝑆.
a) To which scale of measurement do these data belong?
b) Summarize the data by constructing the appropriate frequency distribution.
c) Present the data using the appropriate graph/diagrams.
9. The following data represents the scores of marks that an instructor gives a ten point test for
statistics students in stat 1071 course (use sturge's formula).

2.05 2.01 2.43 2.63 2.5 3.25 3 3.32 2.73 2.7 2.85 2.95 4.64 5.27
2.9 3.6 3.58 3.62 3.4 3.34 3.45 3.85 3.5 4.1 4.08 4.12 4.62 5.25
3.83 3.75 3.94 4.07 4.05 5.15 4.54 5.2 3.99 3.97 4 4.55 4.7 6.4
4.58 5.5 5.05 5.55 4.2 4.15 4.25 5 4.9 6.5 5.35 5.85 5.3 5.8

a) Construct a frequency table and find the cumulative relative frequency.

b) Construct a histogram, frequency polygon and an Ogive curve.
10. Given below is raw data on age of 30 employees of a certain organization. Construct a
frequency distribution including the class boundaries, class marks and cumulative frequency.
26 27 30 31 32 34 35 35 36 37
38 40 41 41 43 43 45 47 48 49
50 51 53 57 58 61 62 63 65 67
11. Suppose the data collected for heights (in cm) of 390 men were tabulated in a frequency
distribution and the following results were obtained.
𝑓𝑖 : 6 25 48 72 116 60 38 22 3
𝑚1 = 112 , 𝑚2 = 117 𝑤𝑕𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑖 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑕𝑒 𝑖 𝑡𝑕 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘 (𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡).
Determine:
a) The width of the class intervals b) The class limits
c) Class boundaries d) Class marks.
e) The less than frequency distribution
Draw: a) Histogram, frequency polygon and an Ogive curve for the data.
12. The following data show the amount of gold production in thousands of troy ounces for
Colombia for six years. Draw a line graph and comment on the trend.
Year 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Amount 656 701 976 1250 1270 1620

13. The number of visitors to the Railroad Museum during 24 randomly selected hours is shown
here. Construct a stem and leaf plot for the data.
67 62 38 73 34 43 72 35
53 55 58 63 47 42 51 62
32 29 47 62 29 38 36 41