Practical Data Analysis with JMP®

Application

Now that you have completed all of the activities in this chapter, use the concepts and techniques that you've learned to respond to these questions.

1. Use your primary textbook or the daily newspaper to locate a small set of data. Enter the data into a new JMP data table, add appropriate notes, and save.

2. Return to the Cement data table. Browse through the column notes, and explain what variables these columns represent:

   1. Cement

   2. SPgate

   3. FineAgg

3. In the NHANES data table, several nominal variables appear as continuous data within the Columns panel. Find the misclassified variables, and correct them by changing their modeling types to nominal.

4. The NHANES data is assembled by scientific researchers (many of them wear white coats). Why don't we ...