PSY340: Statistics for the Social Sciences

Part I: give some datasets and have them make frequency distribution table and some graphs

a) Below are the data from students asked how many hours they had studied the previous weekend:
11,2,0,13,5,7,1,8,12,11,7,8,9,10,4,7,8,6,7,10,7,3,11,18,2,9,7,3,7,8,3,13,9,8,7,7,10,4,15,3,5,6,9,7,10,6
Make a frequency distribution table and a histogram for these data. Describe the shape of the distribution.

b) Below are the number of minutes it took each of a group of 10-year-olds to do a series of abstract puzzles:
24,84,36,22,81,39,60,62,38,36,66,38,45,20,20,67,41,87,41,82,35,82,28,80,80,68,40,27,43,80,31,89,83,24
Make a grouped frequency distribution table and a histogram for these data. Describe the shape of the distribution.

c) Give an example of something having these distributional shapes: 1) bimodal, 2) approximately rectangular, and 3) positively skewed

a) Make histograms (under the GRAPHS menu) of math and verbal sat scores. Describe the shape of the distributions
b) Make a simple bar graph of average high school math scores (use the 'bars represent other summary function' button) by sex (enter in the category axis)
c) Make a simple bar graph using different columns as data (use summaries of separate variables), with average high school math, science, and english grades
d) Make a clustered bar graph of college gpa (other summary function), with sex (clusters) and major (category)
e) Make a scatterplot of math and verbal sat scores