Statistics

6. Below are the home states of 17 college professors.

Ohio Georgia New Jersey Georgia Nebraska
Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina New Jersey
New Jersey South Carolina Wisconsin Michigan Pennsylvania
Ohio Wisconsin


i. Make a frequency table using these 8 states:
Georgia
Michigan
Nebraska
New Jersey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Wisconsin





ii. What is (are) the mode(s)?
there is no mode because none of the states mentioned are repeated more than once


iii. Does it make sense to talk about the average for this data? Why or why not?
iv. Using your frequency table draw a pie chart to display the distribution of home states by filling in the following table:
Home State Frequency Percentage of total Measure of Central Angle (in degrees)
Georgia
Michigan
Nebraska
New Jersey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Wisconsin

Please help!

You tell me!

I see at least two "Georgia" in there.

Please discuss the "Mean". Does it apply to ordinal data? Cardinal data? Categorical data?

Georgia = 2
Michigan = 2
Nebraska = 1
New Jersey = 3
Ohio = 3
Pennsylvania = 2
South Carolina = 2
Wisconsin = 2

There are 2 modes New Jersey & Ohio

The mode(s) are the data listed most often (or 3)
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hope this helps
falcon

Make the pie chart 17 sections (one for each professor) and label and color them according
to the states popularity. This way easy to read. You can use the free picture editor Photo Pos Pro
http://www.photopos.com/Photo-Pos-Pro-Image-Editor.asp
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hope this helps
falcon

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falcon