STAT Lab:

1. a)

Figure 1. A histogram showing the frequency of the ages of Oscar winners

The shape of this histogram is unimodal and right skewed. The age of Oscar winners is not evenly
distributed as the graph is skewed. Approximately 104 winners fall between 30 and 50 years of age.

b)

Figure 2. A histogram showing the frequency of ages of female Oscar winners

For females, the histogram is right skewed and unimodal. Most of the winners are between 20-40 years
of age. In particular, females ages 30-40 are most likely to win Oscars. The number of award recipients
decrease significantly more when age rises past 30-40 years compared to the decrease when age falls
below 30-40 years.
Figure 3. A histogram showing the frequency of ages of male Oscar winners

For males, the histogram is slightly right skewed ad unimodal. Most of the winners are between 40-50
years of age. The number of award recipients decrease more when age rises past 40-50 years compared
to the decrease when age falls below 40-50 years.

2.

Figure 4. The side-by-side box plot of age of Oscar winners for males and females

a) Both the age distributions for males and females are right skewed since the range between the
left fence and the median is significantly smaller than the range from the median to the right
fence. Because the data set of age for both males and females are right skewed, the centre of
this distribution is the median. The median age of females is lower than the median age of
males by approximately 10 years. In fact, each value of the 5 number summary is approximately
10 years lower in females in comparison to males. The spread of age for males between the
fences is about the same as the spread for females.
b) There are much more outliers in the box plot for females in comparison to the box plot for
males. There are 7 outliers for females, and 1 outlier for males.
 c) You can see on the box plot that each value of the 5 number summary for females is lower by
about 10 years in comparison to the 5 number summary for males. Due to this, you can
conclude that Best Actress award winners tend to be younger than Best Actor award winners.
3.

Figure 5. The scatter plot for Oscar winners by year Oscar was awarded vs age when Oscar was awarded.

a) There does not seem to be an increasing or decreasing trend in age over the years. The data
points of ages do not seem to be following any specific pattern as the age distributions look
constant over the years. However, there is evidence in this plot that supports the conclusion in
2. c). The general range of the dots for males are higher in the age range than females. You see
no males with awards below about age 30, but there are many females below 30 with awards.
When the age is between 50 and 65 on the other hand, there are very little females compared
to males. Therefore, since you can see that the typical age for males with awards is between 30-
65, whereas its 20-50 for females, you can conclude that Best Actress award winners tend to be
younger than Best Actor award winners.
b) There are three noticeable outliers in this scatterplot. Most actors with the award are no older
than approximately 65, but there are 3 outliers who received the award past approximately 75
years of age. Removing the outliers would not affect the trend because the majority of actors
are still scattered fairly evenly in ages throughout the years. These outliers are ages 74, 76, and
80.
4.

Column n Mean Variance Std. dev. Std. err. Median Range Min Max Q1 Q3
AGE 156 39.49359 120.19996 10.963574 0.87778845 38 59 21 80 31.5 45
Table 1. The summary statistics for age of all 156 Oscar winners including values of n, mean,
standard deviation, standard error, median, range, min, max, Q1, and Q3.

a) Because of the skewed histogram, the mean and standard deviation cannot be used to describe
the center and spread respectively. Instead, the median of 38 years should be used to describe
the center, and Q1 and Q3 of respectively 31.5 years and 45 years should be used to describe the
spread.
 b) = 3 1 = 45 31.5 = 13.5
1.5 = 1.5 13.5 = 20.25
Outliers are higher than Q3 + 1.5IQR and lower than Q1 1.5IQR
3 + 1.5 = 45 + 20.25 = 65.25
1 1.5 = 31.5 20.25 = 11.25
There are 3 winners older than 65.25 years of age and 0 winners under 11.25 years of age.
Therefore, there are 3 outliers specified by the 1.5IQR criterion. These outliers are age 74, 76,
and 80.
5.

GENDER n Mean Variance Std. dev. Std. err. Median Range Min Max Q1 Q3
f 78 35.461538 129.68032 11.387727 1.2894061 33 59 21 80 28 38
m 78 43.525641 79.34349 8.9074963 1.0085753 42 47 29 76 37 48
Table 2. The summary statistics for age of Oscar winners grouped into male and female including values
of n, mean, standard deviation, standard error, median, range, min, max, Q1, and Q3.

a) Because both the histogram of male and female winners ages are skewed, the mean and
standard deviation cannot be used to describe the centre and spread respectively. Instead, the
median should be used to describe the centre and the Q1 and Q3 should be used to describe the
spread. For females, the median age is 33 years, Q1 is 28 years, and Q3 is 38 years. For males, the
median age is 42 years, Q1 is 37 years, and Q3 is 48 years.
b) Females:
= 3 1 = 38 28 = 10
1.5 = 1.5 10 = 15
Outliers are higher than Q3 + 1.5IQR and lower than Q1 1.5IQR
3 + 1.5 = 38 + 15 = 53
1 1.5 = 28 15 = 13
There are 7 female winners older than 53 years of age and 0 female winners under 13 years of
age. Therefore, there are 7 outliers specified by the 1.5IQR criterion. These outliers are ages 54,
60, 61, 61, 63, 74, and 80
Males:
= 3 1 = 48 37 = 11
1.5 = 1.5 11 = 16.5
Outliers are higher than Q3 + 1.5IQR and lower than Q1 1.5IQR
3 + 1.5 = 48 + 16.5 = 64.5
1 1.5 = 37 16.5 = 20.5
There is 1 male winners older than 64.5 years of age and 0 male winners under 20.5 years of
age. Therefore, there is 1 outlier specified by the 1.5IQR criterion. This outlier is age 76.
c) As seen in table 2, the median, Q1, and Q3 are all lower for females by about 9-10 years. The
median age is 42 years for males and 33 years for females. The Q1 is 37 years for males and 28
years for females. The Q3 is 48 years for males and 38 years for females. The median age is 9
years older for males, the Q1 is 9 years older for males, and the Q3 is 10 years older for males.
Therefore, the Best Actress award winners tend to be younger than the Best Actor award
winners.
6.
 BP Frequency Relative Frequency
New York 22 0.14102564
England 21 0.13461538
California 19 0.12179487
Pennsylvania 5 0.032051282
Connecticut 5 0.032051282
Wisconsin 4 0.025641026
Ohio 4 0.025641026
Missouri 4 0.025641026
Illinois 4 0.025641026
Washington 3 0.019230769
Wales 3 0.019230769
Texas 3 0.019230769
New Jersey 3 0.019230769
Nebraska 3 0.019230769
Massachusetts 3 0.019230769
Japan 3 0.019230769
Italy 3 0.019230769
India 3 0.019230769
Germany 3 0.019230769
Georgia 3 0.019230769
Canada 3 0.019230769
Washington DC 2 0.012820513
Virginia 2 0.012820513
Sweden 2 0.012820513
Montana 2 0.012820513
Florida 2 0.012820513
Australia 2 0.012820513
Other* 20 0.12820513
Table 3. The frequency and relative frequency table of birthplace of Oscar winners

Based on the table, it seems that the top three locations are much more likely to have Oscar winners
than any other. Ranked from most Oscar winners, they are respectively New York, England, and
California. 22 winners were born in New York, 21 were born in England, and 19 were born in California.

7.

f m Total
1 7 8 15
(46.67%) (53.33%) (100%)
(8.97%) (10.26%) (9.62%)
2 3 5 8
(37.5%) (62.5%) (100%)
(3.85%) (6.41%) (5.13%)
3 6 5 11
(54.55%) (45.45%) (100%)
(7.69%) (6.41%) (7.05%)
4 8 17 25
(32%) (68%) (100%)
(10.26%) (21.79%) (16.03%)
5 8 8 16
(50%) (50%) (100%)
(10.26%) (10.26%) (10.26%)
6 8 0 8
(100%) (0%) (100%)
(10.26%) (0%) (5.13%)
7 6 8 14
(42.86%) (57.14%) (100%)
(7.69%) (10.26%) (8.97%)
8 7 6 13
(53.85%) (46.15%) (100%)
(8.97%) (7.69%) (8.33%)
9 5 5 10
(50%) (50%) (100%)
(6.41%) (6.41%) (6.41%)
10 6 5 11
(54.55%) (45.45%) (100%)
(7.69%) (6.41%) (7.05%)
11 9 2 11
(81.82%) (18.18%) (100%)
(11.54%) (2.56%) (7.05%)
12 5 9 14
(35.71%) (64.29%) (100%)
(6.41%) (11.54%) (8.97%)
Total 78 78 156
(50%) (50%) (100%)
(100%) (100%) (100%)
Table 4. The contingency table with birth month of Oscar winners on rows and gender on columns with
relative frequency percentages for rows and columns.

a) April was the month where the most recipients of the Best Actor award were born. 17 winners
of the Best Actor award were born in April, accounting for 21.76% of all male recipients. June
was the month where the least recipients of the Best Actor award were born. 0 winners of the
Best Actor award were born in June, accounting for 0% of all male recipients.
b) November was the month where the most recipients of the Best Actress award were born. 9
winners of the Best Actress award were born in November, accounting for 11.54% of all female
recipients. February was the month where the least recipients of the Best Actress award were
born. 3 winners of the Best Actress award were born in February, accounting for 3.85% of all
female recipients.
c) From table 4, it looks Oscar winners, regardless of gender, were most likely to be born in April.
25 winners were born in April, accounting for 16.03% of all award winners.