Lesson 3 jamovi Assignment

Central Tendency

Intro Statistics for Social Sciences (Professor April Garcia Peck)

Prepare: Watch the jamovi video lessons for Lesson 3. 

Dataset needed: jamovi Dataset - Lesson 03.omv

Assignment Prompt:

The Lesson 3 jamovi dataset summarizes hospital visits where the patient reported an injury due to punching a wall. The dataset contains 6 variables (columns) and 1,907 cases (rows). Use jamovi to answer the following questions. 

1. For the variable “Age”, what is the mean? Report to 1 decimal place. ______

2. For the variable “Age”, what is the median? Report to 1 decimal place. ______

3. For the variable “Age”, what is the mode? Report to 1 decimal place. ______

4. Describe the shape of the histogram for the variable “Age” (Choose one: symmetrical, negatively skewed, positively skewed, or bimodal)

5. Which measure of central tendency is the most appropriate for the variable “Age”? (Choose one: mean, median, or mode)