Data for Exercise 6.79

Step

Format

A data frame/tibble with 12 observations on one variable

score

State test of educational progress (STEP) science test score

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples


EDA(Step$score)
#> [1] "Step$score"

#> Size (n)  Missing  Minimum   1st Qu     Mean   Median   TrMean   3rd Qu 
#>   12.000    0.000   58.000   65.500   71.417   71.500   71.417   79.250 
#>     Max.   Stdev.     Var.  SE Mean   I.Q.R.    Range Kurtosis Skewness 
#>   82.000    8.140   66.265    2.350   13.750   24.000   -1.420   -0.165 
#> SW p-val 
#>    0.621 
t.test(Step$score, mu = 80, alternative = "less")
#> 
#> 	One Sample t-test
#> 
#> data:  Step$score
#> t = -3.6526, df = 11, p-value = 0.001902
#> alternative hypothesis: true mean is less than 80
#> 95 percent confidence interval:
#>      -Inf 75.63684
#> sample estimates:
#> mean of x 
#>  71.41667 
#> 
wilcox.test(Step$score, mu = 80, alternative = "less")
#> Warning: cannot compute exact p-value with ties
#> Warning: cannot compute exact p-value with zeroes
#> 
#> 	Wilcoxon signed rank test with continuity correction
#> 
#> data:  Step$score
#> V = 3, p-value = 0.004343
#> alternative hypothesis: true location is less than 80
#>