Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Exercise 50

Student Life: Data Collection Project Make a statistical profile of your own statistics class. Items of interest might be
(a) Height, age, gender, pulse, number of siblings, marital status
(b) Number of college credit hours completed (as of beginning of term); grade point average
(c) Major; number of credit hours enrolled in this term
(d) Number of scheduled work hours per week
(e) Distance from residence to first class; time it takes to travel from residence to first class
(f) Year, make, and color of car usually driven
What directions would you give to people answering these questions For instance, how accurate should the measurements be Should age be recorded as of last birthday