Assignment 3 Due Date: 28 May, 2012 Weighting: 25% ? Answering the questions in this assignment should not be your first attempt at these types of questions. It is essential that you work through practice exercises from the tutorial sheets and/or text book first. ? This assignment is important in providing feedback and helping to establish competency in essential skills. ? Answer all the questions. The questions are not of equal weight, and some questions are worth much more than others. ? The questions relate to material up to and including Module 8. ? Before starting this assignment read Notes Concerning Assignments under the Introductory Material link on the StudyDesk. ? When you are asked to comment on a finding, usually a short paragraph is all that is required. ? Do not copy/paste SPSS output into your assignment unless specifically asked to do so In many cases the SPSS output contains much more information than is required for a correct and complete answer. In those cases just reproducing the output may not attract any marks. Make sure you report only the information from the SPSS output relevant to your answer. ? Unless instructed otherwise, show all working and formulae used in calculating confidence intervals and performing hypothesis tests. (Answers may of course be checked where possible using SPSS). ? In order to obtain full marks for any question you must show all working. ? This assessment item consists of 4 questions.Question 1 (30 marks) Use the information in the dataset heart.sav to answer the following questions. This file is available under the Assessment/Assignments link on the StudyDesk. For parts (c) and (d), do the calculations by hand, using a calculator and the results from part (a). (a) Use SPSS to calculate the mean and standard deviation of BMI for the females only in this sample. (b) Check the appropriate conditions and assumptions needed to calculate either a...
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