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15.3.4: Chapter 5 Lab

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    Cross‐tabulation and Two Way Tables 

    Open the Minitab file lab04.mpj from the website.  

    Here is a description of the data collected from elementary schools in Michigan:

    1. Gender: (Boy, Girl)
    2. Grade: 4, 5 or 6
    3. Age: Age in years
    4. Ethnicity: White, Other (Yes, that was the way it was reported when this data was collected!)
    5. Location: Rural, Suburban, Urban
    6. School: 1=Brentwood Elementary, 2=Brentwood Middle, 3=Ridge, 4=Sand, 5=Eureka, 6=Brown,  7=Main, 8=Portage, 9=Westdale Middle
    7. Goals: Student's choice in the personal goals: 1=Make Good Grades, 2=Be Popular, 3=Be Good in Sports
    8. Grades: Rank of "make good grades" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important)
    9. Sports: Rank of "being good at sports" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important)
    10. Looks: Rank of "being handsome or pretty" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important)
    11. Money: Rank of "having lots of money" (1=most important for popularity, 4=least important)

    Cross Tabulation is a method of taking pairs of categorical variables and creating a two‐way table. The command can be found on the menu bar STAT>TABLES>CROSSTABULATION. Choose two data items and check that you want count, row percents and column percents. You can also make a clustered bar graph GRAPHS>BAR GRAPH>CLUSTERED. The example shows gender cross‐tabulated with grade level:

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    1. Cross‐tabulate Gender with Goal and create a two‐way table. Create a clustered bar graph. Paste them both here.
      1. What is the probability a randomly selected student chooses sports as the most important goal? What type of probability is this (Marginal, Joint, or Conditional)?
      2. What is probability that a randomly selected student is a boy? What type of probability is this (Marginal, Joint, or Conditional)?
      3. What is probability that a randomly selected student is a boy and chooses sports as the most important goal? What type of probability is this (Marginal, Joint, or Conditional)?
      4. What is the probability ca randomly selected boy chooses sports as the most important goal? What type of probability is this (Marginal, Joint, or Conditional)?
      5. What conclusions can you make about Gender and Goal?
    2. Cross‐tabulate Location with Goal and create a two‐way table. Create a pie graphs for Goal with a multiple variable Location on the same graph. Paste the cross‐tabulation and pie graphs here

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    1. What is the probability that a randomly selected student chooses sports as the most important goal?  
    2. What is probability that a randomly selected suburban student chooses sports?  
    3. What is the probability that a randomly selected rural student chooses sports?
    4. What is the probability that a randomly selected urban student chooses sports?
    5. What conclusions can you make about Location and Goal?
    1. Cross‐tabulate any two variables of your choice and create a two‐way table. Create a clustered bar graph. Paste them both here.  
      1. Calculate and explain any marginal probability of your choice.  
      2. Calculate and explain any joint probability of your choice.
      3. Calculate and explain any conditional probability of your choice.
      4. What conclusions can you make about these two variables?

     


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