Descriptive Statistics, Ordinal Scale and Dichotomous Variable

  Weekly Readings:  IBM SPSS for Introductory Statistics (by Morgan, Leech, Gloeckner, & Barrett) Chapter 4  Every Good Endeavor (by Timothy Keller) Part III Weekly Assignment Respond to the following short answer questions from Chapter 4 of the Morgan, Leech, Gloeckner, & Barrett textbook: This introduction to the research problem and questions raised by the HSB dataset should help make the assignments meaningful, and it should provide a guide and some examples of your own research. Interpretation Questions D3.4.1 -Using outputs 4.1a and 4.1b (a) What is the mean visualization test score? (b) What is the skewness statistic for math achievement test? (c) What is the minimum score for the mosaic pattern test? How can that be? D3.4.2- Using Output 4.1b: (a) For which variables that we called scale, is the skewness statistic more than 1.00 or less than -1.00? (b) Why is the answer important? (c) Does this agree with the boxplot for Output 4.2? Explain. D 3.4.3Using Output 4.2b: (a) How many participants have missing data? (b) What percent of students have a valid (non-missing) motivation scale or competence scale score? (c) Can you tell from Outputs 4.1 and 4.2b how many are missing both motivation scale and competence scale scores? Explain. D3.4.4- Using Output 4.4: (a) Can you interpret the means? Explain. (b) How many participants are there altogether? (c) How many have complete data (nothing missing)? (d) What percent are in the fast track? (e) What percent took algebra 1 in h.s.? D3.4.5 Using Output 4.5: (a) 9.6% of what group are Asian-Americans? (b) What percent of students have visualization 2 scores of 6? (c) What percent had such scores of 6 or less?