Lab 1.

For Lab 1 you will be collecting/finding three sets of sample data with at least
Collect/Find data sets that interest you! Most students collect data from their current job,
a hobby or something completely off the wall such as the size of toilet paper sheets.
It does not matter what the population is as long as it is collected using one of the
techniques in your book(see chapter 4). You are not required to use random sampling
For example, you can get a bag of M&M’s and look at its colors,
or you can look at the type of cars on diferent parking lots. For the other data
you can search the internet: weather data for Medford OR, or precipitation data;
goals made by a certain team, number of homeruns, etc.

List your 50 or more categorical data points in column A of the next worksheet in this
workbook (see tabs). List your 50 or more continuous data points in Column A of the next works
workbook and finally list your 50 or more discrete data points in column A of the next
worksheet in this workbook. Answer all questions about your data on these worksheets.
Create the appropriate graphs for each of the data sets.

Upload this file with your name, answers and graphs by the due date.
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ata from their current job,
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other data
ipitation data;

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n Column A of the next worksheet in this
lumn A of the next
on these worksheets.
 RAW Type your continuous data set into column A and answer these questions:
DATA
F A. What is your population?
F Females/Males of SOU sociology/psychology classes who smokes
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F B. What is the variable you are studying? And why are you interested in
F this population and variable?
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F Smokers
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F I am interested because I have never smoke in my entire life until I
F enter college at age 22. The stress level build up and smokes was my
F relieved answer.
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F C. What are the units of your data?
F No specific unit
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F D. Why are you sure that your sample data is categorical?
F A variable can be classified as categorical if each observation number)
F nExamples:
F nGender (Male or Female)
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F E. How/Where did you get your data? Explan how well your sample
F represents your population?
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you interested in

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servation number)

Organize your data here, use it later to make a graph

ciology/psychology
RAW Type your continuous data set into column A and answer these questions:
DATA
19 A. What is your population?
19 Age
20

20 B. What is the variable you are studying? And why are you interested in
this population
20 2. Choose Excel Options at the bottomand variable?
20 and click GoSmokers
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21 I am interested because I have never smoke in my entire life until I
enter college
21 Analysis Toolpak-VBA andatclick
ageOK
22. The stress level build up and smokes was my
22 relieved answer.
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22 5. Check Analysis Toolpak and
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23 C. What are the units of your data?
23 Numbers of age
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24 D. Why are you sure that your sample data is continuous?
24 1. Click the office button (ball in the
25 measuring something to any level of accuracy)
25 nContinuous variables have an infinite number of possible values
25
26 E. How/Where did you get your data? Explan how well your sample
26 represents your population?
26 My informations were gathered mainly from my S.O.U sociology/psychology
26 left corner) classes.
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26 3. Choose Add-ins on the left column
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28 Installing the Data Analysis Toolpak:
28 4. Choose Excel Add-ins near the bottom
29 Creating a Frequency Table
29 and Histogram
29 List your data in a column.
29 Create intervals and record them
30 1. Open "Data" tab
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32 2. Open "Data Analysis"
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34 3. Choose "Histogram"
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35 4. Enter your original data
42 for "Input Range"
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52 5. Select your upper limits
for Excel's "BIN"

6. Choose an "output range"

7. Click on the chart output.

Determine your interval width: 6

nterested in lower limit upper limit

2. Place your histogram in the following box:

ogy/psychology
RAW Type your continuous data set into column A and answer these questions:
DATA
A. What is your population?

B. What is the variable you are studying? And why are you interested in
this population and variable?

C. What are the units of your data?

D. Why are you sure that your sample data is discrete?

E. How/Where did you get your data? Explan how well your sample
represents your population?
1. Create a graph that displays your data well here:

Organize your data here, use it later to make a graph