Final Examination

Soc 109

UCR

 

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1,  A research process consists of  the following 4 stages (mark 4 items as your answer)

 

___ data collection

___ data manipulation

___ data recoding

___ results presentation

___ data analysis

___ hypothesis testing

 

2,  A student used GSS to study “attitudes toward religious”, his population is:

 

___ All the individuals surveyed by GSS

___ All the students

___ All the adults in the United States

 

3,  A statement of a research question shall at least describe 3 elements from the following list (mark 3 items as your answer)

 

___ hypothesis

___ dataset

___ presentation

___ units of analysis

___ concepts

___ software

 

4,  Which one of the followings is a SPSS data file

 

___ PolInf.dat

___ PolInf.sav

___ PolInf.spo

___ PolInf.doc

___ PolInf.sps

 

 

 

5,  Study the following data sheet. What is the age of case 3 ?

                                                                       

 

Edu

Age

1

1

18

2

0

10

3

2

23

4

3

30

5

1

16

 

___ 10

___ 19

___ 23

___ 16

 

6,  Student A recoded the EDU variable as “1 for high school or less”, “2 for college”, “3 for graduate school or above”. What is this variable’s measurement level?

 

___ interval

___ ratio

___ ordinal

___ nominal

 

7,  A researcher wants to study if individidual’s earning affects this person’s political attitudes. This research question contains which of the following concepts: (mark all applicable)

 

___ political attitude

___ income

___ person

___ affect

___ student

 

8,  A dataset consists of  3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9 . Its mode is:

 

___ 7

___ 6.5

___ 9

___ 7.5

 

9,  For a normal distribution, 68.3% of the area under the curve is within:

 

___ one St Dev of the Mean

___ between Mean and Median

___ between Min and Max

 

 

10,  The following is from the GSS codebook.

 

n              wrkslf             R SELF-EMP OR WORKS FOR SOMEBODY

 

n                         (Are/Were) you self employed or (do/did) you work for

n                         someone else?

 

n                         VALUE  LABEL

n                             0  NAP

n                             1  SELF-EMPLOYED

n                             2  SOMEONE ELSE

n                             8  DK

n                             9  NA

 

n                         Data type: numeric

n                         Missing-data codes: 0,8,9

n                         Record/column: 1/28

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The value of the variable WRKSLF is located in:

 

___ between 1st colum and 28th column

___ between 8th and 9th column

___ 10th column

___ 28th column

 

11,  Which of the followings are a data archieves (mark all applicable)

 

___ ICPSR http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

___ FedStats http://www.fedstats.gov

___ CSES

___ GSS

___ ASCII

 

12,   Which of the followings is NOT qualitative data

 

___ Video

___ Photo

___ Number

___ Text

 

13,   Which of the following research is NOT a qualitative research

 

___ How Does Number of Office Visits to an Instructor Affect a Student’s Grade.

___ How Does the Effectiveness of Office Visits to an Instructor Affect a Student’s Grade.

 

14,   A researcher plans to study the change of UCR’s faculty income. She selected 20 professors and followes this SAME group over 10 years. Is her study:

 

___ Cohort study

___ Trend study

___ Panel study

 

15,   Which of the followings are Data Analysis software (statistical software)? (mark all)

 

___ S-plus

___ SPSS

___ PowerPoint

___ Microsoft Word

___ SAS

 

16,   Which of the followings is a SPSS Syntax file?

 

___ work1.spo

___ work1.sav

___ work1.sps

___ work1.dat

 

17,   What is the Median of the Data “Data 2:  1, 5, 5, 6, 7, 9”

 

___ 6

___ 5

___ 5.5

___ 9

 

18,   Study the following frequency table. How many of the respondents answered NO?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


___ 728

___ 37.1%

___ 100.0

___ 59.1%

19,   Student B wants to measure the association between two ordinal variables. Which of the following should she use?

 

___ Pearson’s correlation

___ Lambda

___ Tau

___ Gamma

 

20,   Student C wants to measure the association between age in years and income in dollars. Which of the following should she use?

 

___ Pearson’s correlation

___ Lambda

___ Tau

___ Gamma

 

21,   Which of the following is NOT what we mean by “dimension”?

 

___ Minimum number of variation sources

___ Mimimum number of coordinates

___ Mimimum number of variables

___ Minimum number of values

 

22,   Study the following table.

. Polinf12 – Use Web for Pol Info in Past 12 Months

. News12 – Use Web to Learn News in Past 12 Months  (1 ~ Yes, 2 ~ No)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Among those who use web to learn news in past 12 months, how many of them do not use web for pol info in past 12 months?

 

___ 176

___ 17%

___ 57.1%

___ 12.9%

___ 83%

23,   Study the following table. Which variable has the largest variation among its values?

 

 

 

 

 


___ Locvote

___ Intpol

___ Swayvote

___ workpol

___ gavepol

___ othlobby

___ polrally

___ loclobby

___ age

 

 

 

 

24,   Student A computed a Gamma value for Age and PolParticipation with a result of Gamma=0.15 and a significant value of 0.16. Does this indicate a

 

___ Strong relationship

___ Moderate to high relationship

___ Low to Moderate relationship

___ Weak relationship

___ No significant relationship

 

25,   Another students obatined a result of Gamma=0.78 and a significant value of 0.0001. Does this indicate a

 

___ Strong relationship

___ Moderate to high relationship

___ Low to Moderate relationship

___ Weak relationship

___ No relationship

 

26, What is the following picture called?

 


___ Histogram

___ Pie

___ Scatter Plot

___ Bar Charts

 

 

 

27,   What is the mean of the dataset of “1,5,5,6,4,9”?

 

___ 5

___ 9

___ 1

___ 5.5

 

28,   Study the following data. Which data point is an outlier?

 

___ Point 3

___ Point 7

___ Point 1

___ Point 9

 

29,   Which data point has the minimum value for the variable SALARY?

 

___ Point 1

___ Point 7

___ Point 6

___ Point 5

 

30,   What is the RANGE for the variable SALARY?

 

___ 20

___ 24

___ 95

___ 96

 

31,   The Lambda value for two variables A and B is 0.78. Which of the following statements is wrong?:

 

___ As A increases, B will increase.

___ A is associated with B.

___ A and B are related to each other.

 

32,   The Pearson Correlation Coefficient value for two variables A and B is  -0.1. Which of the following statements is wrong?

 

___ A and B has a weak correlation.

___ A will affect B.

___ 0.01 of the variance of B can be explained by the variable A.

___ As A increased by one unit, B’s value will be decreased by 0.1.

 

 

 

 

33,   The following is a scatter plot of variables X vs. Y. What is the correlation value of X and Y?

 

___ 0

___ 1

___ 0.5

 

 

 

 

 

34,   We often use Pij to represent a value of variable j at case i. Study the following data and mark the value for Page  john.

 

___ 20

___ 30

___ 40

___ 14

___ 26

 

 

 

35,   When using SPSS for data processing, missing values should be recoded as:

 

___ 0

___ 8

___ 9

___ System Missing

___ NA

 

36,   Which of the followings is NOT a common problem of using others’ dataset?

 

___ Different population

___ Different conclusion

___ Different unit of analysis

___ Different variables

 

37,   Which of the followings is NOT a method to analyze qualitative data?

 

___ Concept Mapping

___ Causal Analysis

___ Decision Modeling

___ Regression

___ Classification

___ Content Analysis

 

38,   The following is what a student inputed when used SPSS to recode his dataset. If a case A had a age value of 48, what is the new age value for this same case?

 

 

 


___ 0

___ 1

___ 2

___ 3

___ 4

___ 5

 

39,   Please write down a step by step SPSS procedures to obtain the st dev of two variables X and Y, and a regression coefficients of Y on X.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

40, Student C obtained the pearson correlation value for variables A and B as 0.8. If he wants to conduct a simple regression analysis of variables A and B. What will be the R2 value for this regression analysis?

 

 

 

41, Please use your words to summarize the necessary elements of a data processing system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

42, Please use your words to summarize the stages of a data processing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

43,   Please calculate the R2 from the following table and give your explanation of this R2 value.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

44,   Study the following table.

. Polinf12 – Use Web for Pol Info in Past 12 Months

. News12 – Use Web to Learn News in Past 12 Months  (1 ~ Yes, 2 ~ No)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Please describe the meaning of 39.7%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

45,   Please list the FIVE steps to test the following hypothesis: “Individuals’ Education Will Affect His/Her Income”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

46,   Please write the values for the Intercept and Slope from the following SPSS result.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Intercept =  

Slope =  

 

 

47, Please state a research question that is different than the one used in your first homework.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

48, What methods will you use to study your question? Why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

49, Please describe five basic elements to form your research report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

50, What is the most important concept you learned from this course?