Dataset: Best Actor Oscar Winners (1970-2001)

Best Actor Oscar Winners (1970-2001)

Year	Name	Movie	Age
1970	George C. Scott	Patton	43
1971	Gene Hackman	The French Connection	40
1972	Marlon Brando	The Godfather	48
1973	Jack Lemmon	Save the Tiger	48
1974	Art Carney	Harry and Tonto	56
1975	Jack Nicholson	One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest	38
1976	Peter Finch	Network	60
1977	Richard Dreyfuss	The Goodbye Girl	32
1978	Jon Voight	Coming Home	40
1979	Dustin Hoffman	Kramer vs. Kramer	42
1980	Robert De Niro	Raging Bull	37
1981	Henry Fonda	On Golden Pond	76
1982	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	39
1983	Robert Duvall	Tender Mercies	55
1984	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus	45
1985	William Hurt	Kiss of the Spider Woman	35
1986	Paul Newman	The Color of Money	61
1987	Michael Douglas	Wall Street	33
1988	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man	51
1989	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot	32
1990	Jeremy Irons	Reversal of Fortune	43
1991	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs	55
1992	Al Pacino	Scent of a Woman	42
1993	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia	37
1994	Tom Hanks	Forrest Gump	38
1995	Nicolas Cage	Leaving Las Vegas	31
1996	Geoffrey Rush	Shine	45
1997	Jack Nicholson	As Good As it Gets	60
1998	Roberto Benigni	Life is Beautiful	46
1999	Kevin Spacey	American Beauty	40
2000	Russell Crowe	Gladiator	36
2001	Denzel Washington	Training Day	47

Question 1:

Getting information from the output:

a. How many observations are in this data set?

b. What is the mean age of the actors who won the Oscar?

c. What is the five-number summary of the distribution?

Question 2:

Get information from the five-number summary:

a. Half of the actors won the Oscar before what age?

b. What is the range covered by all the actors' ages?

c. What is the range covered by the middle 50% of the ages

Question 3:boxplot

Compare and contrast the distributions of the graduation rates at the different colleges. Be sure to address center, spread and outliers.

If you had to choose one college among the six colleges based on this data, which college would it be? Explain your reasoning.

If you were debating between colleges B and F only, which one would you choose based on this data? Explain your reasoning