Student Name:____________________ Worked with:_____________________________________________________________ Please explain your work, including which functions you used in Excel – do not just write the answers. Also, just to be clear, it is my understanding that the solutions to the even-numbered problems in MBB are not available anywhere to students. But if you should happen to find them somewhere, you are not allowed to consult them on this assignment. 1. MBB Problem 2.12 (modified) The city manager of Snook, Texas, wants to generate some statistics on a voluntary free flu shot clinic for city employees. Specifically, she has the following data on her employees, including whether employees received shots and whether they took sick leave during the winter months: Gender Department Age Received Shot Took Sick Leave Female Budget 33 Yes No Male Fire 26 No Yes Female Parks 41 No Yes Female Budget 38 Yes No Male Police 52 Yes Yes Male Parks 24 Yes No Female Police 47 No No Female Fire 65 Yes No Male Fire 50 Yes No Female Parks 39 No Yes The city manager asks you to come up with a numerical coding scheme so that these data can be placed in a statistical program for analysis. (a) Develop a coding scheme for Gender. (b) Develop a coding scheme for Department. (c) Develop a coding scheme for Age. (d) Develop a coding scheme for Received Shot. (e) Develop a coding scheme for Took Sick Leave. 2. MBB Problem 3.4 (modified) For the entire month of January 2014, the local domestic violence shelter ran a series of ads on the government access cable television channel. The director of the shelter hypothesized that the ads would bring more attention to the problem of domestic violence and make victims of domestic violence more aware of the shelter’s programs. The director has monthly data on the number of new clients. At the end of April 2014, the director asks you to come up with a research design to help assess whether the ads had an effect on the number of clients served. (a) What is the concept that the director wants to measure? (b) What is the indicator that the director is proposing to use to measure that concept? (c) What level (interval, ordinal or nominal) of indicator is the number of clients served? (d) What is the independent variable in the director’s hypothesis? (e) What is the dependent variable in the director’s hypothesis? (f) What type of research design (experimental or quasi-experimental and, if quasi-experimental, cross-sectional, case, panel, trend or mixed) would you use to test the hypothesis? Explain your answer in a few sentences. (g) The director has monthly figures for the number of clients served in 2013. Are these data relevant for testing the above hypothesis? If so, why? Explain your answers in a few sentences. 3. MBB Problem 4.6 (modified) The city clerk has received numerous complaints over the past year that couples applying for a marriage license have to wait too long to receive one. Although.

1. Student Name:____________________
Worked
with:________________________________________________
_____________
Please explain your work, including which functions you used
in Excel – do not just write the answers. Also, just to be clear,
it is my understanding that the solutions to the even-numbered
problems in MBB are not available anywhere to students. But if
you should happen to find them somewhere, you are not allowed
to consult them on this assignment.
1. MBB Problem 2.12 (modified)
The city manager of Snook, Texas, wants to generate some
statistics on a voluntary free flu shot clinic for city employees.
Specifically, she has the following data on her employees,
including whether employees received shots and whether they
took sick leave during the winter months:
Gender
Department
Age
Received Shot
Took Sick Leave
Female
Budget
33
Yes
No
Male
Fire
26
No
Yes

2. Female
Parks
41
No
Yes
Female
Budget
38
Yes
No
Male
Police
52
Yes
Yes
Male
Parks
24
Yes
No
Female
Police
47
No
No
Female
Fire
65
Yes
No
Male
Fire
50
Yes
No
Female

3. Parks
39
No
Yes
The city manager asks you to come up with a numerical coding
scheme so that these data can be placed in a statistical program
for analysis.
(a) Develop a coding scheme for Gender.
(b) Develop a coding scheme for Department.
(c) Develop a coding scheme for Age.
(d) Develop a coding scheme for Received Shot.
(e) Develop a coding scheme for Took Sick Leave.
2. MBB Problem 3.4 (modified)
For the entire month of January 2014, the local domestic
violence shelter ran a series of ads on the government access
cable television channel. The director of the shelter
hypothesized that the ads would bring more attention to the
problem of domestic violence and make victims of domestic
violence more aware of the shelter’s programs. The director has
monthly data on the number of new clients. At the end of April
2014, the director asks you to come up with a research design to
help assess whether the ads had an effect on the number of
clients served.
(a) What is the concept that the director wants to measure?
(b) What is the indicator that the director is proposing to use to
measure that concept?

4. (c) What level (interval, ordinal or nominal) of indicator is the
number of clients served?
(d) What is the independent variable in the director’s
hypothesis?
(e) What is the dependent variable in the director’s hypothesis?
(f) What type of research design (experimental or quasi-
experimental and, if quasi-experimental, cross-sectional, case,
panel, trend or mixed) would you use to test the hypothesis?
Explain your answer in a few sentences.
(g) The director has monthly figures for the number of clients
served in 2013. Are these data relevant for testing the above
hypothesis? If so, why? Explain your answers in a few
sentences.
3. MBB Problem 4.6 (modified)
The city clerk has received numerous complaints over the past
year that couples applying for a marriage license have to wait
too long to receive one. Although the clerk is skeptical (couples
applying for a license are usually young and impatient), she
pulls a representative sample of marriage licenses issued in the
past year. Because a machine stamps each license application

5. with the time the application is received and the time it is
issued, she can tell how long the young (and old) lovers had to
wait for the marriage license. The clerk considers service
received in less than 10 minutes good and service received in
less than 15 minutes acceptable. Her sample of license data is as
follows:
Couple Number
Minutes Waited for License
1
13
2
6
3
21
4
28
5
4
6
18
7
7
8
26
9
12
10
16
11
23
12
17
13
23

6. 14
11
15
3
16
14
17
25
18
15
19
9
20
19
21
24
22
10
23
15
24
4
25
27
26
17
27
5
28
20
29
13
30
16
(a) Prepare the frequency distribution for these data.

7. (b) Prepare the percentage distribution for these data.
(c) Prepare a cumulative percentage distribution for these data.
(d) Prepare a histogram for these data.
(e) Which of these presentations is most useful for the city
clerk? What should the city clerk conclude? Explain your
answers in a few sentences. (You do not have to write a
memorandum, as in the original MBB problem.)
4. MBB Problem 5.12 (modified)
The head of the Data Processing Department in Springhill wants
to estimate the amount of waste and inefficiency in her
department. She conducts a survey of employees in the
department. One question asks, “To what extent does this
department have waste and inefficiency in its operations?” The
responses to the item are given in the accompanying table.
Response
Number of
Employees
To a very great extent
42
To a great extent
31
To a moderate extent
19
To some extent
12
Not at all
7
(a) At what level of measurement are these data?

8. (b) Calculate the percentage distribution.
(c) Calculate the appropriate measures of central tendency.
(d) According to these data, does the department appear to have
a problem with waste and inefficiency? Explain your answer in
a few sentences.
5. MBB Problem 6.10 (modified)
The director of the South Bloomington YMCA has become
concerned about the health of the organization’s employees. He
issues a directive to all YMCA sites advising all managers to
encourage employees to get at least 60 minutes of exercise per
day. Following are the data on the number of minutes exercised
per day (on the average) by the 10 employees of the South
Bloomington YMCA site:
75 20 15 95 30 100 40 10 90 120
(a) Calculate the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation
for these data.
(b) How well do these employees meet the standard for exercise
recommended by the director of the YMCA? Explain your
answer in a few sentences.
6. MBB Problem 6.18 (modified)
The director of the Madison County jail is planning to testify
before the Wisconsin state legislature with the goal of obtaining
more state funds for the county jail system. In preparing his
remarks, the director plans to present data on the average
number of days that prisoners remain in jail. The director
believes that his case will be more compelling if he can show
that the average stay for prisoners is greater than 21 days. The
director asks you, as chief operations officer for the jail, to

9. calculate descriptive statistics for a random sample of 250
prisoners processed in the last 9 months. (Note: The data set for
this problem is posted on Blackboard.)
(a) Calculate the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation
for these data.
(b) What can you tell the director about his 21-day target?
Explain your answer in a few sentences.
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