Laboratory 6 Answers Summarising data in Minitab

1. What is the mean height of all the students? 68.717

2. What is the median weight of the male students? 155
What does it tell us? 50% of male students weighed more than 155 lbs
3. What is the range of the female initial pulse rates? 100 – 58 = 42
4. How many students smoked? 28 {stat>tables>tally individual variables}
5. What is the shape of the height distribution? Negatively skewed (-0.22)
6. Compare the weight distribution of smokers and non-smokers with regard to:
Average Smokers weigh roughly 10 lbs more than non-smokers on average
Spread IQR of weights is higher for smokers than non-smokers.
S.D> is roughly the same for both smokers and non-smokers.
Range is higher for non-smokers than smokers
Shape Non-smokers weights are positively skewed (+0.61).
Smokers weights are negatively skewed (-0.11).
7. Did the student with the highest initial pulse rate run? Yes (100)
{stat>basicstats>Display Pulse1,Ran,Maximum}
8. What is the relationship, if any, between height and weight?
Strong positive correlation. Taller people typically weigh more.
9. What is the relationship (if any) between weight and level of activity?
Medians High (150) Moderate (140) Low (147.5)
Means High (147) Moderate (143) Low (149)
Those who do moderate activity appear to weigh the least
10. What type of person has a high second pulse rate? Use brushing
Pulse2 Moderate females who ran and didn’t smoke {scatter graph pulse1 v
pulse 2, brush, highlight high values, editor>set id variables, interpret data in box}
11. How many female students smoked? 8
12. What % of male students smoked? 35.09
13. What % of smokers were male? 71.43
14. What % of those with high exercise level ran? 33.33
15. How many smokers had a high exercise level? 5
16. Compare the mean initial pulse rate for female smokers and non-smokers.
Smokers 84.50 Non-smokers 74.59
17. Which level of exercise gave the heaviest men on average? Low (166.7)
{stat.basicstats>displaydesc>weight, vars, sex activity, by }
18. Were smokers or non-smokers the heaviest women on average? Smokers (126.5 v 123)
19. Compare the mean increase in pulse rate between those who ran and those who sat.
ran sat
Pulse2-pulse1 18.9 -0.1
{calc>calculator, pulse change, store result, ‘pulse2’-‘pulse1’, expression}
20. What is strange about the recorded pulse rates and what is the explanation?
Almost all were even numbers – people did 30 seconds count then doubled it