Statistics Question

Overview

Please use this template to help answer the questions listed in the lab instructions.The “parts” below refer to the parts listed in the lab instructions.Type your answers and post your screenshots in the spaces given below.I will upload the assignment and assigned article.

Part 1:

1. Open the lab template from the Required Resources link above. (Fill in this template as you follow each of the steps below).
2. Read the article supplied by your instructor. (You will find a graph OR table within the article, and then draw conclusions about the table or chart you chose and describe other ways that the same data could be presented).
3. Fill in the name of the article on the template: “Review of [Name of Article].” 
4. State the Author on the template.
5. Summarize the article in one paragraph.

Part 2:

• Step 1: Find a frequency table and/or a graph within the article and post a screenshot in your Word document.

Frequency Distribution

Graph

• Step 2: Answer the following questions about your table or graph.   

1. 1. What type of study is used in the article (quantitative or qualitative)? Explain how you came to that conclusion. 
   2. What type of graph or table did you choose for your lab (bar graph, histogram, stem & leaf plot, etc.)? What characteristics make it this type (you should bring in material that you learned in the course)?
   3. Describe the data displayed in your frequency distribution or graph (consider class size, class width, total frequency, list of frequencies, class consistency, explanatory variables, response variables, shapes of distributions, etc.)   
   4. Draw a conclusion about the data from the graph or frequency distribution in the context of the article. 
   5. How else might this data have been displayed? Discuss the pros and cons of 2 other presentation options, such as tables or different graphical displays. Why do you think those two other presentation options (i.e., tables or different graphs) were not used in this article? 
   6. Explain how the alternate presentation options would be constructed.
   7. Give the full APA reference (with the correct capitalization of the title!) of the article you are using for this lab.