Descriptive Statistics - Assignment 2

Running head: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Descriptive Statistics
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Table of Contents
Assignment 2: Descriptive Statistics...............................................................................................2
Part 1............................................................................................................................................2
Part 2............................................................................................................................................3
Answer to question 1...............................................................................................................3
Answer to question 2...............................................................................................................4
Answer to question 3...............................................................................................................4
Answer to question 4...............................................................................................................5
Reference.........................................................................................................................................6

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Assignment 2: Descriptive Statistics
Part 1
There are four standard level of measurement or scale of measurement which are nominal
level, ordinal level, interval level and ratio level.
The level off measurement for “Gender”, “Age” and “Accident” are nominal level, ratio
level and ratio level respectively.
The below table describes the variable accident for the categorical variable gender. Here,
mean, median, standard deviation, range and sum of accidents are recorded for male and female.
The sample size for the male and female is 250. There are no missing values hence the
population is 500. The mean and median value of accidents for male is 1.98 and 2 respectively.
The range and number of accidents for male is 7 and 1.608 respectively. The mean and median
of accidents for the female is 1.47 and 1 respectively. The range and number of accidents for
female is 6 and 1.412 respectively (Chatfield, 2018). The mean value for male and female is 1.98
and 1.47 which indicates that on an average male faces more accidents than female.
Table 1: Descriptive statistics for the accidents across gender.
Case Processing Summary
Sex of insured Cases
Valid Missing Total
N Percent N Percent N Percent
Number of accidents past
5 years
Male 250 100.0% 0 0.0% 250 100.0%
Female 250 100.0% 0 0.0% 250 100.0%
Descriptives
Sex of insured Statistic Std. Error