Assignment title: Information
1. Identify the measurement scales of each variable e.g. continuous, ordinal, nominal or binary. 2. Produce the most appropriate summary measures for each of the variables. 3. Comment on the completeness of the data i.e. the level of missing values. 4. Produce 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th 95th percentiles for the weight variable. Interpret the 95th percentile. 5. Use hand calculations to calculate the mean and standard error and obtain the 90% and 99% confidence interval, for the percentage of women who have you thought recently about ending your life. Compare that with the SPSS based computations. 6. In a simple language (no more than 3 sentences), interpret the 90% confidence interval produced in question 5 above. Part 2 (25% marks) To compare suicidal women with the non-suicidal women on the variable weight: 7. Produce and interpret appropriate summary measures of weight change for suicidal women and non-suicidal women.