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    This document provides instructions for IT-223 Assignment #1. It outlines 5 questions of varying point values that assess both theoretical and applied statistics concepts. Students are instructed to save their responses and any graphs or figures in a Microsoft Word or compatible document. They are also told they may need to scan graphs or figures into their submission. The first two questions analyze real data sets related to flight arrival times and guinea pig survival rates, asking students to calculate summaries and draw graphs. The third questions requires a summary of an article on memory retention. Questions 4 calculates mean and median for a data set. Question 5 provides instructions for connecting to statistical software SPSS using remote desktop.

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    This document provides instructions for IT-223 Assignment #1. It outlines 5 questions of varying point values that assess both theoretical and applied statistics concepts. Students are instructed to save their responses and any graphs or figures in a Microsoft Word or compatible document. They are also told they may need to scan graphs or figures into their submission. The first two questions analyze real data sets related to flight arrival times and guinea pig survival rates, asking students to calculate summaries and draw graphs. The third questions requires a summary of an article on memory retention. Questions 4 calculates mean and median for a data set. Question 5 provides instructions for connecting to statistical software SPSS using remote desktop.

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    This document provides instructions for IT-223 Assignment #1. It outlines 5 questions of varying point values that assess both theoretical and applied statistics concepts. Students are instructed to save their responses and any graphs or figures in a Microsoft Word or compatible document. They are also told they may need to scan graphs or figures into their submission. The first two questions analyze real data sets related to flight arrival times and guinea pig survival rates, asking students to calculate summaries and draw graphs. The third questions requires a summary of an article on memory retention. Questions 4 calculates mean and median for a data set. Question 5 provides instructions for connecting to statistical software SPSS using remote desktop.

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    IT223 - Assignment #1

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    IT-223 - Assignment #1

    Submit your assignment to the D2L Dropbox.


    And again, please remember not to wait until the last minute in case you run into
    glitches with D2L or your own computer.
    All questions in this assignment should be saved into a Microsoft Word document or any
    doc or RTF compatible file. PDF is also fine.
    This assignment is a combination of theoretical questions along with a few 'numbers'
    questions. All answers including graphs should be in a standard word processing document
    (Microsoft Word, Google Document). The values in parentheses are max points for each
    question.

    Graphs: You will be asked to draw a few graphs for this assignment. In order to submit,
    you will have to scan those graphs into your Word document. If you don't have access to a
    scanner, you can even do something relatively crude such as take a picture of the graph
    with your cell phone. I expect that this will be the only time in the course where you will
    need to scan anything.

    Question #1 (10): American Airlines flight 91 from London to Chicago O'Hare
    is scheduled to arrive at 7:50 PM. Not surprisingly, several flights arrive several (or
    many!) minutes early, and several flights arrive late. The following flight times were
    recorded over a 6-day sequence (all times are PM): 8:05, 7:49, 8:43, 7:50, 11:47, 7:31.
    On average (i.e. using the mean) how many minutes early or late does this flight tend to
    arrive? Is the mean an ideal statistic for determining the center of this distribution? (Hint:
    Is there an outlier? How would you decide?) Show your calculations. Note: In order to
    determine how early/late a flight arrives, begin with the scheduled arrival time and
    add/subtract minutes for each recorded observation. So, for example, for the 8:05 flight, I
    might record +15, for the 7:49 flight, -1, etc.
    Give the 5-number summary and draw a box plot (use the modified box plot if there are any
    outliers).

    Question #2 (10): The following table gives the survival times in days of several guinea
    pigs after they were injected with tubercle bacilli in a medical experiment.
    41,99,103,103,105,107,111,113,114,117,119,598
    (3) Draw a histogram (pick what you think is an ideal bin-size).
    (3) Then describe the distribution of survival times. Are there any outliers?
    (3) Summarize the distribution by giving the five-number summary and by
    drawing a modified box-plot.

    Question #3 (7): This is not a stats question Read the article Curve of Forgetting
    which can be found here. Summarize the article. Your summary does not have to be long,
    but it does need to demonstrate that you read and understood the article.

    Question #4 (6): The following dataset comes from a series of student scores on a
    standardized exam: 687, 692, 681, 598, 789, 763, 990, 490. Calculate the mean and
    median.
    Mean=598
    Median=990
    Question #5 (7): This is not a statistics question, and is meant to be some easy
    points. Within the next week or so, we will begin using a very powerful (and
    expensive!) statistical software package called SPSS. DePaul has a special license
    that allows us to remotely use SPSS that has been installed on DePaul machines. To
    do this, however, you need to set up remote desktop. This in of itself is not very
    difficult, but may take a little bit of playing around. All you have to do for this
    question, is go through the steps and demonstrate that you have successfully
    connected to SPSS. Begin by going to this page and, go through the steps needed to
    start SPSS using remote desktop. Once SPSS has been started, paste in a
    screenshot to show that you successfully got it started. This will give you full points
    for the question. One way to get the screenshot into your document is to press the
    PrintScreen button on your keyboard, then open your Word document and press
    control-V.

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