Statistics 1 Midterm Exam Prep Guide
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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
AREA OF STATISTICS
STATISTICS 1
PREPARATORY TASK FOR THE FIRST MIDTERM EXAM
SECOND SEMESTER 2019
Erick Fernando Chanchavac
NAME___________________________________________________________________
ACADEMIC RECORD_______________________ CUI ____________________________
AUXILIARY_____________________________________________ SECTION____________
I. (5 points) Identify each variable as quantitative or qualitative, marking the box with an X.
corresponding.
No. Variable Qualitative
a. Temperature of a vanilla ice cream x
b. Rating (bad, average, or good) of a service. x
c. Price of a soccer ball. x
d. Number of the jersey of a sports team of 22 players x
e. Tax Identification Number of a food company x
X
corresponding.
No. Variable Discrete Continuous
Number of people in an office who weigh less than 155.50 pounds x
b. Height of the players of a baseball team x
c. Number of people who consume more than one liter of water a day. x
d. Weight of a set of boxes containing cereals. x
e. Four covered parking spaces area x
III. (5 points) An educational researcher wants to evaluate the effectiveness of a new method for teaching.
to read to deaf students. The performance at the end of a teaching period is measured with the
student's result in a reading exam.
a) Identify the population of interest for the experiment.
deaf students
b) What is the variable of interest for the researcher?
exam reading score
c) Is the variable from item b) qualitative, discrete quantitative, or continuous quantitative?
quantitative, continuous.
d) What level of measurement can the variable in section b) be classified into?
ordinal.
IV. (15 points) A random sample of people is selected in order to record their opinion about
the service received in customer service, where MS = very satisfied, S = satisfied, I = dissatisfied and
MI = very dissatisfied, the data is shown below:
MS S I I
I I I I I
I I S S
S MI I I I
I MI S S S
S MI I MI S
S I MS S MI
I I S I I
I S MI S MS
a) What is the variable being measured? attention received
R__________________________
b) Is the variable qualitative or quantitative? qualitative
R_________________________
c) Build a distribution that includes frequency, relative frequency, and relative frequency
percentage.
d) Calculate the central tendency of the data.
e) Build a bar graph to describe the data.
V. (30 points). A company records the production times of a wooden dining set.
Take a random sample, which is shown below. The measurements are given in days.
31 31 42 39 42 43 34 30 28 36 37 35 40 28
a) Calculate the average time it takes them to complete the task.
b) Determine the median time for the task.
c) If I were to write a report to describe this data, what measure of central tendency
Would you use it? Explain.
d) Determine and interpret the first quartile of the data.
e) Calculate the standard deviation.
f) Calculate and interpret the coefficient of variation
VI. (40 points)
The time (in months) between the onset of a particular disease and its recurrence was recorded in a
sample of patients from a clinic, the data of the sample is presented below:
8.9 7.1 9.1 10.2 12.5 11.3 11.5 9.7 9.1
10.4 10.7 8.6 11.0 7.7 9.3 7.9 10.4 10.4
10.8 9.2 7.8 8.3 8.9 9.1 12.9 7.9 6.2
35.3 8.2 9.4 9.5 6.2 11.1 9.6 8.9 10.5
7.0 8.7 8.9 9.4 11.9 7.9 10.5 8.8 8.9
a) Build a frequency distribution table that contains: class intervals, limits
real numbers, class marks, absolute frequency, cumulative frequency, relative frequency and
percentage frequency.
b) Elaborate frequency polygon, histogram, and ogive.
c) Calculate and interpret Mean, Median, and Mode.
d) Calculate and interpret the coefficient of variation
e) Determine the fraction of the recurrence time of the disease less than or equal to 10 months.
f) Calculate and interpret the SK coefficient1.
g) Calculate and interpret the coefficient K.