DESCRIPTIVE STATITICS

Q1. To find out the means marks of 200 students in the variable “read”.

Descriptives

Mean

readv 52.23

Q2. Calculate the mean for the variable “write”.

Descriptives

Mean

writev 52.775

Q3. Calculate the S.D. for the variable “math”.

Descriptives

Standard Deviation

math 9.368
Q4. Calculate the variance for the variable “science”.

Descriptives

Variance

science 98.028

Q5. Calculate the max and min marks for the variable “socst”.

Descriptives

Minimum Maximum

socst 26 71

Q6. Calculate the range of marks for the variable “write”.

Descriptives

Range

writev 36
Q7 To find the number of boys and girls OR the frequency for the variable “gender”.

gender

Cumulative
Frequency Proportion Cumulative Proportion
Frequency

Boy 91 91 0.455 0.455

Girl 109 200 0.545 1

Q8 Create the frequency table for the following variables: race, schtyp, prog, ses

RACE

race

Cumulative
Frequency Proportion Cumulative Proportion
Frequency

Asian 24 24 0.12 0.12

European 11 35 0.055 0.175

American 20 55 0.1 0.275

Australian 145 200 0.725 1

SCHTYP

schtyp

Cumulative
Frequency Proportion Cumulative Proportion
Frequency

public
168 168 0.84 0.84
school

private
32 200 0.16 1
school

PROG

prog

Cumulative Cumulative
Frequency Proportion
Frequency Proportion

UG 45 45 0.225 0.225

PG 105 150 0.525 0.75

Research 50 200 0.25 1

SES

ses

Cumulative Cumulative
Frequency Proportion
Frequency Proportion

low 47 47 0.235 0.235

middle 95 142 0.475 0.71

high 58 200 0.29 1

 Visual Representation of Data Using Graphs

Q1 To draw a pie chart showing the percentage of boys and girls.

Q2 To draw a pie chart showing the percentage of following categories: Race, ses, schtyp, prog
Below each chart, mention which category has the highest and lowest percentage.

MAX – AUSTRALIAN MAX - MIDDLE

MIN – EUROPEAN MIN - LOW
 MAX - PUBLIC MAX - PG

MIN - PVT MIN - UG

Q3 To create a bar plot showing count of each of the following category and write MIN and MAX count for them:
gender, ses, prog, schtyp, race

MAX – GIRL MAX – HIGH

MIN – BOY MIN – LOW

GENDER SES
 MAX – PRIVATE MAX - RESEARCH

MIN – PUBLIC MIN – UG

SCHTYP PROG

RACE

There is a discrepancy between pie chart and bar plot data.

Q4 Make a clustered bar plot showing the preference of the programme for each gender, and ascertain which
programme is preferred by which gender.

Q5 Make a clustered bar plot showing the preference of the school for each gender, and ascertain which school is
preferred by which gender.

Q6 Make a clustered bar plot indicating the preference of the programme for SES.

Q7 Make a clustered bar plot showing the preference of the programme for each RACE, and ascertain which
programme is preferred by which RACE.

Q8 Make a clustered bar plot showing the preference of the programme based on the schooling of student.

Q9 Make a clustered bar plot showing the preference of the type of schooling for each gender.
 SCATTER PLOT

Eg. We need to see how performance in read varies with that in write.

The spread of the scatter indicates how strong the bonding between any two variables is. If the spread is large, then
the bonding is weak and if the spread is small, then the bonding will be strong.

Q1 Make a scatter plot between science and social science.

Q2 Make a scatter plot between maths and science and write the interpretation.

BOX PLOT

This plot is used to detect for the presence of outliers.

Outliers- Extreme values which are detected in the box plot.

After making the box plot, count how many circles are above the top and bottom horizontal lines. Those are the
number of outliers for that variable.

Q1 Create a box plot and indicate the number of outliers for the following variable: read, write, math, science, social
science

READ
The lower value of box is q1 AND UPPER VALUE IS Q3.

The top horizontal line’s value= q3+1.5(q3-q1).

The bottom horizontal line’s value = q1-1.5(q3-q1)

HISTOGRAM

This is the frequency polygon which shows the frequency for each mark.

Each bar shows how many students have secured that many marks.

Max students have secured between 45 and 50.

Q1. Make a histogram for the following variables: MATHS, SCIENCE, SOCST, and from the histogram which range of
marks have been secured by the max and min.

Maths = B/w 50 and 60 Science = B/w 50 and 60

Socst =
To create a new variable “TOTAL”, which is addition of marks ion read, write, maths and social science:
menu>data>prepare>derive>click on empty space> make the formula

Q: Make a box plot for total to figure out the presence of outliers.

Q: Make a scatter plot to see the variation of the reading score with total.

Q: Create a new variable average which is the average of marks for each student. Make a histogram then interpret
the max and min range.

MAX – 50-60

MIN- 30-40
Q: Make a box plot to figure out the presence of outliers in the variable “average”.

Q: Make a scatter plot to see the variation of “total” with “average” and write your interpretation.