In this Critical Thinking Assignment, you will explore and summarize a dataset as well as create several visualizations. Explore breakfast cereals in the Cereals.csv (Links to an external site.) file

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In this Critical Thinking Assignment, you will explore and summarize a dataset as well as create several visualizations. Explore breakfast cereals in the Cereals.csv (Links to an external site.) file by performing the following steps.

  1. Follow the process under Summary Statistics in section 4.4 of our text.
  2. Use the R code example shown in Table 4.3 and Table 4.4.
  3. For your assignment submission, take screenshots of your entire R Studio window showing the successful execution of the data.frame() function to compute the following values. Your screenshots must include the system date and time.
    1. mean
    2. standard deviation
    3. min
    4. max
    5. median
    6. length
    7. sum of missing values for each of the quantitative attributes

Hint: You can select a set of data frame columns in the sapply() function. First, determine the quantitative attribute columns. These are the columns you want to keep. You can either positively include these or negatively exclude the other columns. For example, the following code excludes columns 6, 7, and 8 from the mean calculation.sapply(cereals.df[,-c(6:8)], mean, na.rm=TRUE) The na.rm=TRUE eliminates missing values, which cause errors in mathematical calculations.

  1. Plot a histogram for each of the quantitative variables by following the process under Distribution Plots: Boxplots and Histograms in section 3.3.
  2. Use the R code example shown in Figure 3.2.
  3. For your assignment submission, take a screenshot of your entire R Studio window showing the following items. Your screenshots must include the system date and time.
    1. Your code for creating all the histograms
    2. At least one histogram in the Plot window
  4. For your assignment submission, write a description of three things you can learn about this data from the histograms.
  5. Plot a side-by-side boxplot comparing calories in hot versus cold cereals by following the process under Distribution Plots: Boxplots and Histograms in section 3.3.
  6. Use the R code example shown in Figure 3.2 and Figure 3.3.
  7. Add labels to your boxplot.
  8. For your assignment submission, take screenshots of your entire R Studio window showing your code and the boxplot. Your screenshots must include the system date and time.
  9. For your assignment submission, write a description of three things you can learn about this data from the boxplot.

Your assignment submission must be one Word document that meets the following requirements:

  • Conforms to APA guidelines 
  • Includes a cover page with the number and name of the Critical Thinking option you chose
  • Does not include an abstract
  • Includes a one-page description of what you did and what you learned
  • Includes screenshots of your R code showing the entire R Studio window as well as the system clock date and time
  • If the R code in your screenshots is too small to read, copy the code into the paper as a figure
  • All figures, including screenshots and code, must meet APA labeling requirements