What This Document Is
This document is a worksheet for Activity Number One in Introduction to Statistics (STA 282QR) at Central Michigan University. It’s designed to be completed by students as a hands-on exercise using statistical software, specifically CrunchIt. The activity centers around a dataset related to CMU Business students and their distance from home.
Why This Document Matters
This worksheet is a graded assignment for students enrolled in STA 282QR. It’s used to apply concepts from Chapters 1-3 of the course textbook to a real-world scenario – helping CMU refine its business student recruitment strategy. Students will use the worksheet to record answers and paste output from their statistical software analysis.
Common Limitations or Challenges
This worksheet provides the assignment itself, but does *not* provide solutions, detailed explanations of statistical concepts, or step-by-step instructions on how to use CrunchIt. Students are expected to have prior knowledge of the software and the statistical principles covered in the assigned readings.
What This Document Provides
The full document includes: background information on the data’s context (CMU recruitment), a description of the variables in the dataset (Miles, right_distance, etc.), and a series of questions requiring statistical analysis and interpretation. It also includes example output from a preliminary analysis (pie chart of gender distribution) and prompts for critical thinking about sample representation and data errors. This preview does *not* include the answers to the questions, the complete dataset, or detailed instructions on how to perform the analyses in CrunchIt.
