The article “Statistical Modeling of the Time Course of Tantrum Anger” (Annals o

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2021-11-18

The article “Statistical Modeling of the Time Course of Tantrum Anger” (Annals of Applied Stats, 2009: 1013–1034) discussed how anger intensity in children’s tantrums could be related to tantrum duration as well as behavioral indicators such as shouting, stamping, and pushing or pulling. The following frequency distribution was given (and also the cor responding histogram):
0-<2:1362-<4:924-<11:7111-<20:2620-<30:730-<40:3
Draw the histogram and then comment on any interesting features.

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Harr1957

Harr1957

Beginner2021-11-19Added 18 answers

Step 1
As we can see, the class intervals have unequal lenght, which means that we need to use hisrogram with unequal ckass widths.
Constructing a Histogram for continuous data: Unequal Class Widths:
After determining frequencies and relative frequencies, calculate teh height of each rectangle using the formula
7rectangle height=relative frequency of the classclass width
The resulting rectangle height are usually called densities, and the vertical scale is the density scale. This prescription will also work when class widths are equal.
Step 2
Look at the following table:
IntervalFrequencyClass WidthRelative FrequencyDensity0<2:13620.410.202982<4:9220.270.137314<11:7170.210.0302811<20:2690.080.0086220<30:7100.020.0020930<40:3100.010.00089
In the table, intervals and frequencies were given in the exercise.
Class width is difference between upper bound and lower bound.
Relative Frequency is Frequency dividedd by total (sum) of all frequencies which is 335(136+92+71+26+7+3), for example 136335=0.41
We get the density column by dividing the Relative Frequency with the Class Width (0.4120.20298).
Now we have everything we need to create a histogram.
Step 3
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Step 4
The histogram is positively skewed (more data points on the left side). It is not clear from the histogram to see which value would be representiative (typical) value. The histogram is unimodal (it has only one peak-hump). We can notice that the most tantrums are between 0 and 11 (around 90%)
There are only small amount of tantrums that last more than 30 minutes (we can not even see them clearly on the histogram).

Mespirst

Mespirst

Beginner2021-11-20Added 17 answers

Step 1
nFrequency021362492411711120262030730403

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