Do Audience Ratings Differ Based on the Genre of the Movie? The dataset HollywoodMovies includes a quantitative
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Do Audience Ratings Differ Based on the Genre of the Movie? The dataset HollywoodMovies includes a quantitative variable on the AudienceScore of the movie as well as a categorical variable
Variable | Genre | N | Mean | StDev | Minimum | Q1 | Median | Q3 | Maximum |
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Audience Score | Action | 32 | 58.63 | 18.39 | 32.00 | 44.50 | 51.00 | 78.00 | 93.00 |
Comedy | 27 | 59.11 | 15.68 | 31.00 | 48.00 | 58.00 | 71.00 | 93.00 | |
Drama | 21 | 72.10 | 14.55 | 46.00 | 59.00 | 72.00 | 84.50 | 91.00 | |
Horror | 17 | 48.65 | 15.88 | 25.00 | 34.00 | 52.00 | 60.50 | 78.00 |
classifying each movie by its Genre. The computer output above gives summary statistics for audience ratings based on genre for a sample of the movies, using four of the possible genres.
(a) Which genre has the highest mean audience score? The lowest mean audience score?
(b) Which genre has the highest median score? The lowest median score?
(c) In which genre is the lowest score, and what is that score? In which genre is the highest score, and what is that score?
(d) Which genre has the largest number of movies in that category?
(e) Calculate the difference in mean score between comedies and horror movies, and give notation with your answer, using $\bar{x}_{C}$ for the mean comedy score and $\bar{x}_{H}$ for the mean horror score.
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