Exam 3: Frequency Tables and Univariate Charts

You have a frequency table for the variable number of past sexual partners. The rows representing valid answers are in ascending order starting with 0 partners, then 1 partner, and so on. You want to know of the non-missing cases, what percent had 2 or fewer past sexual partners. Which column in a frequency table should you use?

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output   The frequency table represents the responses of 1980 GSS middle-age adults when asked to identify their social class. Which of the following statements is correct?

What is the lowest level of measurement for which you can legitimately use a histogram?

Answer the questions that follow this SPSS output:   A) How many cases have missing data for this variable? __________ B) What percent of all the valid cases have the value Abachelor@? __________ C) Do the data support the claim that most (that means more than half) persons have more than a high school degree? (State your conclusion and state the numerical evidence to support your conclusion.)

What is the lowest level of measurement for which you can legitimately use a bar chart?

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output:   Describe the job satisfaction of the 1980 GSS middle-age adults.

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output:   The frequency table represents the responses of 1980 GSS middle-age adults when asked how happy they were in their marriage. Which of the following statements is correct?

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output:   The first bin in this histogram represents persons with _____ children up to but not including _____ children.

You have a frequency table for the variable number of past sexual partners. You want to know if more than 10% of your respondents refused to answer the question. Refusing to answer has a user-defined missing value code. Which column in a frequency table should you use?

Which column in a frequency table should you use to find the percent of non-missing cases that gave a particular answer or a previously listed answer?

"A statistic which draws a conclusion about a population based on data from a sample" is a definition of a(n)

Answer the question that follows this SPSS output:   Describe the marital status of the 1980 GSS middle-age adults.

A file has data on 600 college students. One of the variables in the data file is the brand of the first car the student owned. 300 students had never owned a car and, thus, had missing data on this variable. Of the 300 students who had owned a car, 30 said Ford was the brand of their first car. As these terms are used in an SPSS frequency table, A) What "percent" first owned a Ford? __________ B) What "valid percent" first owned a Ford? __________

What kinds of questions are answered with valid percents from a frequency table?

"A statistic which summarizes the values on one or more variables for the cases in a data set and only the cases in the data set" is a definition of a(n)

Which column in a frequency table should you use to find the percent of cases in the data set that had missing data on a variable?

What is the difference between univariate and multivariate statistics?

What is the lowest level of measurement for which you can legitimately use a pie chart?

A researcher is concerned that the persons who answered a survey question that everyone should have answered are systematically different from the persons who did not answer the question. The researcher is concerned about

What is the lowest level of measurement for which it is permissible to produce A) A pie chart? __________ B) A bar chart? __________ C) A histogram __________