Week 5: Lab

Steps to Complete Week 5 Lab

Use the Weeks 3 and 5 spreadsheets from the Weeks 3 and 5 Lessonsto help you answer the questions below.

Step 1: Your instructor will provide you with 10 values to use for this lab.

Gather 10 MORE of your own to add to the 10 provided by your instructor.  Do the following:

Survey or measure 10 people to find their heights. Determine the mean and standard deviation for the 20values by using the Week 3 Excel spreadsheet. Post a screen shot of the portion of the spreadsheet that helped you determine these values. How does your height compare to the mean (average) height of the 20 values? Is your height taller, shorter, or the same as the mean of the sample?

Note: The following image is just an example. They are NOT the values you should be using for your lab. Your instructor should have sent you our data values for your Week 5 Lab. Please reach out to your instructor if you do not have your data values.

Data Example of 10 people with different heights(your spreadsheet will have 20 values—10 from your instructor and 10 from your own data gathering).Step 2: Give some background information on the group of people you used in your study. You might consider using the following questions to guide your answer.How did you choose the participants for your study? What was the sampling method: systematic, convenience, cluster, stratified, simple random?What part of the country did your study take place in?What are the age ranges of your participants?How many of each gender did you have in your study?What are other interesting factors about your group?Step 3: Use the Week 5 Excel spreadsheet for the following.(Use the Empirical Rule tab from the spreadsheet). Determine the 68%, 95%, and 99.7% values of the Empirical Rule in terms of the 20 heights in your height study.What do these values tell you?Post a screen shot of your work from the Week 5 Excel spreadsheet.

(Use the normal probability tab from the spreadsheet). Based on your study results, what percent of the study participants are shorter than you? What percent are taller than you?

Post a screen shot of your work from the Week 5 Excel spreadsheet.Example: If my height is 73 inches, then 20.86% of the relevant population is shorter. The other 79.14%, of course, is taller.

Step 4: Be sure your name is on the Word document, save it, and then submit it under “Assignments” and “Week 5: Lab”.

Put values in blue cells; output or answers in YELLOW cells
Data
1
1
2
2
4
5
6
9
11
Mean
Median
Mode
Sample Variance
Sample Standard Deviation
Population Variance
Population Standard Deviation
Range
Count (n)
Min
Quartile 1
Median
Quartile3
Max
Interquartile Range (IQR)
4.5556
4.0000
1.0000
12.7778
3.5746
11.3580
3.3702
10.0000
9.0000
1.0000
1.5000
4.0000
7.5000
11.0000
6.0000
2
#N/A
#N/A
#N/A
(Returns more than one mode)
Enter input in blue cells; See answers in yellow cells
Z score
x
mean
standard deviation
LESS THAN(At most)
AREA LESS THAN
MORE THAN (at least)
ENTER
Asked to find x
32
Mean
28
Stdev
5
AREA MORE THAN
ENTER
Asked to find x
12
Mean
14
Stdev
3
Probability INBETWEEN
INBETWEEN
3.5
6.5
1.5
ENTER
Asked to find Large value
370
Asked to find smaller value
Mean
Stdev
360
365.45
4.9
ANSWER
Z score
-2
Z score
Probability Less than F7
0.8
0.7881
Z score
Probability more than F13
-0.666667
0.7475
ANSWER
Probability between F19 and F20 is
0.6904
Enter input in blue cells; See answers in yellow cells
Find x given Area to Right or Left
Enter
Area to the left
no
Area
0.03
Enter Mean
47500
Enter Standard deviation
3000
Find X given Area in the middle
Area
0.5
Enter Mean
81
Enter Standard deviation
4
If area to the left is given enter yes; otherwise say no
enter decimal
enter decimal
SUMMARY
z
Find x
1.8807936
53142.381
SUMMARY
Lower x
Upper x
78.302041
83.697959
Enter input in blue cells; See answers in yellow cells
Empirical Rule
mean
92
standard deviation
13
68%
95%
99.70%
ANSWER
68-95-99.7
Lower number Upper number
79
105
66
118
53
131
Enter input in blue cells; See answers in yellow cells
CLT THEOREM FOR MEANS
n
Standard deviation
10
8.97
CLT THEOREM FOR PROPORTION
n
proportion of success
30
0.5
Standard error
2.8366
Standard error
0.0913
Week 5 Lab TEMPLATE
Please use this template to help answer the questions listed in the lab
instructions. The “steps” below refer to the steps listed in the lab
instructions. Type your answers and post your screenshots in the spaces
given below. Then, save this document with your name and submit it
inside the courseroom.
Step 1. Gather Data
Your instructors will post 10 data values to use for this lab. The data
values represent the HEIGHTS of 10 people. This data set is posted in the
FILES area, in the “Lab Files” folder. (NOTE: This is NOT the data used in
the lab video, which is about midterm grades. Do not use the midterm
grades data.)
1a. Gather 10 MORE heights on your own to add to the 10 provided by
your instructor. Do the following: Survey or measure 10 people to find
their heights. Determine the mean and standard deviation for the 20 values
by using the Week 3 Excel spreadsheet. (Round statistics to two
decimals.)
Sample mean =
Sample standard deviation =
1b. Post a screen shot in the space BELOW of the portion of the
spreadsheet that helped you determine these values. The screenshot
should show ALL 20 pieces of data. Make sure the instructor data is listed
first and then your data is listed under.
(post screenshot here… delete this line before submitting report)
1c. Answer the following two questions. Use at least two sentences to
answer each question.
How does your height compare to the mean (average) height of the 20
values? Is your height taller, shorter, or the same as the mean of the
sample?
Step 2. Data Characteristics
Answer the following questions to give some background information on
the group of people you used in your study. Write at least two sentences
for each question.
1. How did you choose the participants for your study? What was the
sampling method: systematic, convenience, cluster, stratified, simple
random?
2. What part of the country did your study take place in?
3. What are the age ranges of your participants?
4. How many of each gender did you have in your study?
5. What are other interesting factors about your group?
Step 3. Data Analysis
Answer the following questions. Use the Week 5 Excel spreadsheets to
help analyze the data.
Empirical Rule
1. Determine the 68%, 95%, and 99.7% values of the Empirical Rule in
terms of the 20 heights in your height study. (Use the Empirical Rule tab
from the spreadsheet).
(post screenshot here… delete this line before submitting report)
2. What do these values tell you? (Write at least one paragraph.)
Normal Distribution
3. Based on your study results, what percent of the study participants are
shorter than you? What percent are taller than you? (Use the normal
probability tab from the spreadsheet).
4. Post a screen shot of the normal distribution from the Week 5 Excel
spreadsheet to support your answer above..
(post screenshot here… delete this line before submitting report)
Step 4. Save and submit this document
Be sure your name is on the Word document, save it, and then submit it. In
the assignment module, click “start assignment” and then “upload file” and
“submit assignment”.
Heights (in)
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
72
74