Statistics Project

This assignment is designed to help teach you to describe a single variable-its central location, its dispersion, to create an appropriate graphic to illustrate the variable, and to discuss the way in which you variables distribute.

Use the following format:

1. A title page with "Homework #2: Describing a single variable" as the title and your name, section, TA's name, professor's name, date, G# in the upper, right hand corner.
2. Start a new page for each variable.
3. The variable name in bold and underlined at the top of the page.
4. Your answers should have the following sections:

1. A properly formatted frequency table for the variable you are describing.
2. A table of appropriate summary statistics.
3. An appropriate graphic.
4. A paragraph describing your variable.

For each of the variables below:

1. Identify the level of measurement for each variable.
2. Build a table that shows the cumulative % and frequencies.

1. The table must be in APA format (See sample below)
2. Some variables will have to be recoded to effectively display in a table.

III. Report the summary statistics that describes the variable in terms of all the appropriate measures of central location and dispersion. Points will be deducted for inappropriate measures. NOTE: If recoding your variable, report summary statistics on the original, unrecoded variable.

IV. Create 1 appropriate graphic to display the distribution (See sample bar chart below for an ordinal variable).

V. Write a paragraph that describes the distribution in terms of central location, dispersion, outliers, and skew (if any).

These are your variables:

1. From the WORLD dataset use the variable named "effectiveness" with the label "Government effectiveness scale".
2. From the NES2008 dataset use the variable named "employ_status" with the label "Employment status".
3. From the NES2008 dataset use the variable named "relig_attend" with the label "How often R attends religious services".
4. From the GSS 2008 dataset use the variable named "int_info_scale" with the label "Level of interest in current issues".
5. From the GSS 2008 dataset use the variable named "educ_4" with the label "Education: 4 categories".

Price: $16.7

Solution: The downloadable solution consists of 12 pages, 470 words and 5 charts.
Deliverable: Word Document