Mathematics - Statistics Week 3 Assignment

1. Your instructor will provide you with a scholarly article.  The article will contain at least one graph and/or table.  

Part 2:  

1. Title your paper: “Review of [ Name of Article]” 

2. State the Author:

3. Summarize the article in one paragraph:

4. Post a screenshot of the article's frequency table and/or graph.  

Example:  Frequency Distribution  -OR- Graph

5. Answer the following questions about your table or graph.   

a. What  type of study is used in the article (quantitative or qualitative)?

i. Explain  how you came to that conclusion. 

b. What  type of graph or table did you choose for your lab (bar graph, histogram, stem & leaf plot, etc.)?

i. What characteristics make it this type (you should bring in material that you learned in the course)?

c. Describe  the data displayed in your frequency distribution or graph (consider class size, class width, total frequency, list of frequencies, class consistency, explanatory variables, response variables, shapes of distributions, etc.)   

d. Draw a conclusion  about the data from the graph or frequency distribution in the context of the article. 

e. How  else might this data have been displayed?

i. Discuss the pros and cons of  2 other presentation options, such as tables or different graphical displays.

ii. Why  do you think those two other presentation options (i.e., tables or different graphs) were not used in this article? 

Give the full  APA reference of the article you are using for this lab.