Your instructot will help the class create a data file consisting of the values for class members of characleristics such as $G E=$ gender. $A G=$ age in years, $H J=$ high school GPA (on a four-point scale), $C O=$ college GPA, $D H=$ distance (in miles) of the campers from your homc town, $D R=$ distance (un miles) of the classroom from your cun ent residence, $N E=$ number of tines a week you read a newspaper. $7 V=$ average nutmber of hous per week that you watch TV, $S^P=$ alerage number of hours per week that you participate in sports or have othet physical cxercise, $V E=$ whether you are a vegetanan (yes, no), $A B=$ opinion about whether abortion should be legal in the first three months of pregnancy (yes, no) $P I=$ political ideology $(I=$ very libesal, $2=$ uberal, $3=$ slightly liberal, $4=$ modenate, $5=$ slightly conservative, $6=$ conservabve, $7=$ very conservative), $P A=$ political affiliation ( $\mathrm{D}=$ Democrat, $\mathrm{R}=$ Republican, $\mathrm{I}=$ independent). $R E=$ bou often you attend religious services (never, occasionally: most weeks, every week). $L D=$ beliet in life adte1 deads (yes, no). $A A=$ support affimative action (yes. no), $A H=$ number of people 1 ou Anou whu have died from AIDS or who are HIV+ Alternauvely. you insiructor may ask you to use a data file of this type already peepared in fall 1996 with a class of social science graduate sudents at the University of Florida, available on the World Wide Web al
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Using a spreadsheet program or the statistical suftware the instructor has chosen for your course, create a computer data file containing this infornation Each row of the file should contain data for $\triangle$ particular student, and each column should contain values of 4 particular clraracterstic Print the data. What are some questions one might ask about these data? Homework exercises in each chapter will refer to these data