KOHAT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Kohat 26000, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PAKISTAN Ph # 0922-52914410, Fax #554556

DEPARTMEN OF EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY

Mid Term Paper: PSY322- Statistics for Psychology

Allowed time: 24H Max Marks: 30

Note: Attempt ALL questions. Spring-2020

1. Attempt all questions
2. Marks will be awarded for factual correctness, precision, logical organization of content,
sound reasoning, originality of thought and justified conclusions.
3. Answer sheets (Pdf) will be submitted through KCMS and also send me solved paper on
shafiq@kust.edu.pk

Q#1. Lists grades of 80 students obtained in the final exam of an elementary statistics class. The
grades are scored out of 100 points and rounded to the nearest whole number.
Grades of 80 Students Obtained in the Final Exam of an Elementary Statistics Class
91 65 53 29 81 95 12 39
27 92 50 89 64 75 80 99
79 62 98 41 92 17 73 22
72 1 89 91 46 61 68 7
37 92 48 25 85 93 57 74
83 59 81 68 93 33 84 92
14 41 71 83 55 83 9 34
71 92 79 73 94 44 54 6
90 72 95 46 19 95 81 53
96 78 37 76 62 8 32 X
In the place of “X” write last two digits of your registration number

a. Make a group frequency distribution for the given data.

b. Do the observed scores tend to fall into some recognizable pattern?
c. What measures of central tendency would you compute? Justify your choices.?

“All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.”
Q#2. Calculate median for the given data

Number of 1.5—1.9 2.0—2.4 2.5—2.9 3.0—3.4 3.5—3.9 4.0—4.4 4.5—4.9

hours(00)
Number of 2 1 4 15 10 5 3
mobiles

Q#3. For the following sets of data, what measures of central tendency would you compute? Justify
your choices.
i. 4, 3, 7, 5, 4, 2, 120, 60, 5, 4, 3, 3, 2, 70, 1, 6, 4, 5, 3, and 55.
ii. Eye color: blue, brown, brown, blue, green, brown, gray, brown, blue.
iii. The price per unit of commodities are given calculate the average of price of the
commodities, 7, 8, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 6, 5, 3, 7, 8, 7, 6, 7, 8, 5, and 7.

iv. Fill in the blanks

Descriptive Statistics
Mean 20
Mode 20
Standard 15
Deviation
Variance
Range 40
Minimum
Maximum 40
Sum
Count 9
v. What are at least 3 numbers which should be present in the data?

“All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.”
Q#4. The marks of Statistics course are recorded in a Psychology class and were coded
as. Scores 81 to 100 were classified as very high (VH); scores from 61 to 80 as high (H);
scores from 41 to 60 as middle (M); and scores from 21 to 40, as low (L).
H H H H M VH VH H

M L H M VH H H H

H M M H H VH H VH

VH H H M M VH M L

H VH VH H H M VH M

M M VH L M H H VH

Find standard deviation and mean deviation for the data. Also suggest which measure will
you prefer between these two?

“All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.”