Practice Questions Part 1 Visitor Data Scenario
1. The aim is to analyse and summarise the expenditure per night for our
sample of 500 visitors to Queenstown.
The boxes following should provide enough space to discuss expenditure
per night on each of the three levels; centre, dispersion, and shape of
distribution. Note, however, all three levels are interrelated.
Central tendency
Spread/ dispersion
Shape/ Skewness
Finish the following statement;
The top 25% of our sample visitors to Queenstown spend …
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, 2. Use descriptive statistics to compare the expenditure per night of New Zealand
visitors to Queenstown with that of all foreign (grouped together) visitors (include
comments on values from your analysis and the appropriateness of the different
measures). Hints: Transform/recode into a different variable Region, New
Zealanders in one group and all other regions in another. Then use the Explore
command in SPSS with the new Foreigner variable as the factor. (Note; the
categories below are all inter linked)
Central tendency
Spread/ dispersion
Shape/ Skewness
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1. The aim is to analyse and summarise the expenditure per night for our
sample of 500 visitors to Queenstown.
The boxes following should provide enough space to discuss expenditure
per night on each of the three levels; centre, dispersion, and shape of
distribution. Note, however, all three levels are interrelated.
Central tendency
Spread/ dispersion
Shape/ Skewness
Finish the following statement;
The top 25% of our sample visitors to Queenstown spend …
1
, 2. Use descriptive statistics to compare the expenditure per night of New Zealand
visitors to Queenstown with that of all foreign (grouped together) visitors (include
comments on values from your analysis and the appropriateness of the different
measures). Hints: Transform/recode into a different variable Region, New
Zealanders in one group and all other regions in another. Then use the Explore
command in SPSS with the new Foreigner variable as the factor. (Note; the
categories below are all inter linked)
Central tendency
Spread/ dispersion
Shape/ Skewness
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