TIPS FOR THE LABS:

If the question has bold or underline, then it is an important concept and is generally where students go astray.
Pay special attention to these hints in the question. Many questions involve multiple calculations and ISLEX does not
mark questions correct if they are out by .01 to 0.1 in most cases. Therefore, KEEP all of the decimal places.
Rounding answers will change the numbers slightly and result in incorrect answers.
If you have problems with:
LAB 1, Question 2 or 8 Make sure you are reporting the midpoint and not the bin number.
LAB 2, Part B and C When it asks you to compare to the population it means the population of data from part
A. Make all your comparisons to part A data which is the population. Part B and C are samples from the Part A
population.
LAB 2, Question 6, 7, 13 or 14 Excel calculates the quartiles using a slightly different formula than we do in
class make sure you use the excel function (and not calculate them by hand).
LAB 2, Question 17, 18, 22, 23 Ratios the ratios cannot be entered as 1:2 as ISLEX cannot decipher it.
Therefore, just divide the first by the second. Example: 1:2 would be 1 / 2 = 0.5 and enter 0.5 into ISLEX.
LAB 3, Question 7 What is the variance of this binomial distribution?

HINT : The variance of a probability distribution is the mean of the

squares x2P(x) of values minus the square of the mean of values (xP(x))2.
LAB 4, Question 3, 4 and 5 Note that the question asks for proportion (decimal answer), percentage (out of
100) and probability (decimal answer). Make sure you are answering appropriately and not mixing these up.
LAB 5, Question 5 recheck that your histogram is correct.
LAB 5, Question 10 Did you use the known st dev of 3.0 or the one you calculated in #9? Always use known
population data over any sample data.
LAB 6, Question 15 Create a NEW column of differences between each data pair. Then find the st dev of that
new column. (You cant just subtract the two st deviations.)
LAB 6, Question 21 is (#14 3) / (#15/(square root of the number of pairs)) Note that you cannot put this
entire formula into EXCEL because EXCEL does not calculate a division by a division properly! Calculate the
numerator in one cell. Then calculate the denominator in another cell. Then divide.
LAB 6, Question 22 Use the program to find the critical value, do not use the rounded value of infinity off the
table (should be about 1.66).
LAB 7, Question 22 is #14 - #17 - #21. Keep lots of significant figures on this one throughout your calculation
of 14, 17 and 19, 20 and 21.
LAB 8, ANOVA make sure your data is arranged in the appropriate table otherwise the ANOVA function will
not work (see examples in back) unless you are using STATPLUS.
LAB 9, Question 6 remember to multiple your answer by (25/24).
LAB 9, Question B If you are getting 10 through 15 incorrect, you may have entered your variables backwards
into excel. Carefully look at which column you use to input y and input x. Also for questions 16-20, not that EXCEL
give the standard error of the estimate directly but call is st dev you do NOT have to divide by the sqrt of n!