Statistics homework help
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 (sampling method)?
- 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 ten heights in your height study.
- What do these values tell you?
- Post a screen shot of your work from the Week 5 Excel spreadsheet.
Week 5 Spreadsheet Example - (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.