In: Statistics and Probability
A data set has 1000 observations. In the data, a quantitative variable's highest value is 780 and its lowest value is 95. a) How many number of classes would you recommend? b) What is the class interval that you would recommend?
A data set has consists 1000 observations.
Minimum value = 95 and maximum value = 780
To determine the class intervals we are using the 2k Baseline greater than or equals n rule
The number of classes should not be too many or too few. A rough guideline for constructing k classes for sample data is smallest integer value k such that 2 k > n, where n is the sample size.
a) The sample size is 1000 and since 210 > 1000.
We would use k=10 classes.
Class width is computed as (Largest - Smallest) / class size
= (780-95) / 10 = 68.5
Class width ? 68
b) Class Intervals are
95 - 163
164 - 232
233 - 301
302 - 370
371 - 439
440 - 508
509 - 577
578 - 646
647 - 715
716 - 784