STAT 1430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Descriptive Statistics, Standard Deviation

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Statistics
• Course: STAT 1430
• Professor: Kumar Somnath

Document Summary

Stat 1430 case study #1 spring 2016. Our goal with the case studies this year will be to examine data on the employees of the auditor of the state of ohio for 2014. The data can be found on carmen u(cid:374)der the(cid:863) case tudies(cid:863) section, a(cid:374)d is titled (cid:862)case study data. (cid:863) there are two spreadsheets in the workbook: (cid:862)data(cid:863), and (cid:862)data dictionary(cid:863). A complete description of all the variables in the dataset can be found in the (cid:862)data dictionary(cid:863). You should familiarize yourself with the information in the (cid:862)data dictionary(cid:863) before performing any statistical analysis. This case study will focus on using material from sections 3. 1, 3. 2, 1. 1, and 1. 2. Put the results in an easy-to-read table: create a histogram of the ages of auditor employees. Put the results in an easy-to-read table: create a histogram of the hourly wages of auditor employees.