A.5 Answer: TW 5 tutorial

Answers for Sect. 5.2

  1. A few issues: Five decimal places is to the nearest \(0.01\) of a mm! The standard deviation of the difference is not the difference between the individual standard deviations. A standard deviation cannot be negative. (Same applies to standard errors, but we aren't there yet.) Note that there is a sample size of \(0\) for the difference!
  2. A few issues: Five decimal places: That's accuracy to \(0.00001\) of a millimetre per second (I don't think so...). There is no numerical measures of the most important thing and the thing the RQ (presumably) concerns: The differences between the two brands.

Answers for Sect. 5.3

  1. A few issues: vertical axis is not labelled (presumably burn time in seconds); horizontal axis is not labelled (we have no way of knowing what is happening there.)

  2. A few issues: this is not a summary: this shows the burn-time of every individual candle, and makes it hard to compare means (which is the RQ); why is every bar labelled, which just adds unnecessary clutter; fonts are hard too read (small); a boxplot (or dotchart) would be the appropriate graph. In addition: the largest value is over \(70\,\text{mins}\)! Do a quick project!

  3. A few issues: Compares just two numbers (means) using lots of ink; no indication of variation in the data; a boxplot (or dotchart) would be appropriate.

Answers for Sect. 5.4

  1. Plot 1: \(0.94\) (correlation D); Plot 2: \(-0.95\) (correlation A); Plot 3: \(0.12\) (correlation B); Plot 6: \(0.75\) (correlation C).
    Correlation is inappropriate for Plot 4 (non-linear) and Plot 5 (non-linear).
  2. Examples of the direction in Plot 1: any two variables moderately positively correlated, such as height and weight, distance lived from university and travel time, etc.
  3. Examples of direction in Plot 2: any two variables moderately negatively correlated, such as hours of weekly exercise and body weight, number of SCI110 tutorial missed and final mark, etc.
  4. Plot 1: \(88.4\)%; Plot 2: \(90.3\)%; Plot 3: \(1.4\)%; Plot 6: \(56.3\)%.

Answers for Sect. 5.6

Answers implied by H5P.

  1. Five variables. ('Participants' would not be summarised, it is technically an identifier and not a variable, as each person has a unique value).
  2. Age; Height; Weight and quantitative continuous.
  3. Gender (nominal; two levels); GMFCS (ordinal; three levels)
  4. As follows:
    • 'Gender': Percentages (or number) F and M
    • 'Age': Mean/median; standard deviation/IQR
    • 'Height': Mean/median; standard deviation/IQR
    • 'Weight': Mean/median; standard deviation/IQR
    • 'GMFCS': Percentages (or numbers) in each group
  5. As follows:
    • 'Gender': Barchart (not really needed)
    • 'Age': Histogram/stemplot
    • 'Height': Histogram/stemplot
    • 'Weight': Histogram/stemplot
    • 'GMFCS': Barchart/piechart
  6. As follows:
    • Between Gender and Height: Boxplot
    • Between Gender and GMFCS: Side-by-side or stacked bar chart.