Measurement and Data Analysis

HSS 2381 Section C

D. Gordon E. Robertson, PhD, FCSB

School of Human Kinetics

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Last updated: 4 January 2008

Index:

Course Information
Assignments
Course Notes
Links

Course Information:

Course Outline View class overheads (below) for sections of textbook excluded from examinations.
Textbook Website: Student Centre
Laws of Statistics
SPSS Commands

Assignment Problems:

Note, all assignments must be stapled and include a cover page. Assignments should be put in the boxes outside Montpetit 302.
You must record your name, ID number, Assignment number and Lab. number on the cover page.

Tutorials start Monday 17 September in Montpetit 302. Assignments are due on Fridays by 12:00 PM (noon) one week after class! Of course they can be put in the appropriate box earlier if you cannot be on campus on Fridays or if you have an engagement that day. Box numbers for each lab and TA are listed below.
Penalties (half marks) are applied to late assignments!

Assignments may be picked up at your regularly assigned lab period.
Note, TAs will leave if no students are present after the first hour.

Lab. number	Lab. time	Teaching assistant	Box	E-mail:
1	Monday 3:00-4:00 AM		C1
2	Thursday 1:00-2:00 PM		C2
3	Tuesday 10:00-11:00 PM		C3
4	Tuesday 11:00-1200 (noon)		C3
5	Wednesday 10:00-11:00 AM		C4
6	Wednesday 1:00-2:00 PM		C4
7	Thursday 12:00-1:00 PM		C2
8	Wednesday 4:00-5:00 PM		C5
9	Thursday 9:00-10:00 AM		C6
10	Thursday 10:00-11:00 AM		C7

Assignment 1 (due Friday 21 September 12:00 noon)

section 2-4, page 50, questions 4, 10 and 14
section 2-5, page 65, questions 4, 10 and 14
section 2-6, page 74, questions 2 and 8

Assignment 2 (due Friday 28 September 12:00 noon)

section 3-2, page 99, questions 6 and 8
section 3-3, page 107, questions 10 and 16
section 3-4, page 115-6, questions 6 and 10
section 3-8, page 147-8, questions 2, 6, 8, 10 and 18

Assignment 3. (due Friday 5 October 12:00 noon)

section 4.2, page 167, question 6 (find only the mean, don't compute standard deviation)
section 4.3, page 175-6, questions 10, 24 and 26
Calculate the expected return on a lottery ticket if there are 1000 tickets sold for $5 each and the prizes are:

one 1st prize of $1000
five second prizes of $200
twenty 3rd prizes of $100

Does the lottery company make or lose money on this lottery?

Assignment 4. (due Friday 12 October 12:00 noon)

section 5.2, page 203-4, questions 14, 16, 18 and 40 (graphs should be simple and hand-drawn)
section 5.3, page 210, questions 10 and 14 (graphs should be simple and hand-drawn)
section 5.5, page 230-1, questions 12 and 14.

Assignment 5. (due Friday 19 October 12:00 noon, University Day)

section 6.3, page 283, questions 10, 12 and 24
section 6.4, page 295, questions 2, 8 and 14

No assignment due Friday 26 October due to midterm.

Be sure to have an Equations Sheet to bring to the midterm exam.

Assignment 6. (due Friday 2 November 12:00 noon)

section 7.2, page 335, questions 14 and 20
section 7.4, page 351, questions 2, 4 and 12
section 7.5, page 362, question 18
section 8.3, page 397, question 6
section 8.4, page 406, question 8

Assignment 7. (due Friday 9 November 12:00 noon)

section 9.2, page 444, questions 8 and 12 (no need to produce a scatterplot)
section 9.3, page 462, questions 8 and 12
section 9.4, page 470, question 10 (only report coeff. of determination and standard error of estimate)

Assignment 8. (due Friday 16 November 12:00 noon)

section 10.2, page 501, questions 4 and 6
section 10.3, page 515, questions 2 and 8

Assignment 9. (due Friday 23 November 12:00 noon)

section 11.2, page 548, questions 8 and 10
section 12.3, page 585, question 2
section 12.4, page 589, question 2
section 12.5, page 596, question 8
section 12.6, page 604, question 12

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