Homework #3
Read in the data set basketball.dat.
Answer the following questions.
- How many total games are in the data set?
- What is the average combined score of all games played since 1985?
- How many games has UCLA won?
- How many games has UCLA lost?
- In what years did UCLA win at least three games?
- What is the average score by UCLA in games they won?
- What is the average score by UCLA in games they lost?
- Who were the winning and losing teams in the game
with the highest combined score?
- Who were the winning and losing teams in the game
with the lowest combined score?
- Who were the winning and losing teams in the game
with the largest point differential?
- Who were the winning and losing teams in the game
with the tenth largest point differential?
- Does combined score follow a normal distribution, approximately?
Use a Q-Q plot to answer this.
- Plot the average combined score by year.
Is there an obvious trend?
Last modified: March 19, 1997
Bret Larget,
larget@mathcs.duq.edu