Question 1

a.
-The population is : Students
-In the sample are involved : 99 people
-It’s not a random sample, because the individuals were not chosen randomly or by chance. The
individuals are students of EUR that follow the Quantitative methods and SPSS course. In this case
the population is students but the sample is not random because the students are only students of
EUR that follow the Quantitative methods and SPSS course, so it means that students don’t have an
equal chance of being chosen (same probability).
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b.
Response Rate 99/296=33,44%
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Question 2
a.
Mean (M) 26,23

Median 25,00

Mode 10,00
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b.
The distribution can be described as positively skewed because : Mean>Median>Mode.
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Question 3
a.

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b.

Type of graph Histogram

 The variable is continuous and the histogram is the
visual representation of the frequency distribution
Reason where the frequencies are presented by bars.

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c.
In the x-axis we can see how high the mobile phone bills were and on the y-axis we can see the
frequency. The graph shows the frequency distribution of the phone bills last month. There is no
space between the bars so the numbers are continuous. The distribution is positively skewed
because the Mean is bigger than the Median.

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Question 4
a.
Mean (M) 39,50
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b.
My shoe size is 41 so : the deviation is 1,50
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c.
Variance (s2) 9,33
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d.
The variance is a measure of how spread the distribution is. It is computed as the average squared of
each number from its Mean. The variance is a difficult number to interpret and apply to a set of data.
The solution to this problem is to use the standard deviation, which is the square root of the
variance.
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Question 5
a.
Mean (M) 7,43
Standard Deviation
2,06
(s)
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b.
Z-value 0,276
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c.
I sleep on average 8 hours at night so :
Z-value= 8-7,43/2,06 . If I sleep more hours than the Mean the Z-value is positive, if I sleep less
hours than the Mean the Z-value is negative.
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d.
Hours of sleep 7,43
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d.

Hours of sleep 9,69

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