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Investigating Hollywood Movies
In the following exercise, we use data from HollywoodMovies. The dataset
includes information on all movies to come out of Hollywood between 2012 and
2018.
Do Movie Budgets Differ Based on the Genre of the Movie?
The dataset HollywoodMovies includes a quantitative variable on the
Budget of the movie, in millions of dollars, as well as a categorical variable
classifying each movie by its Genre. The figure below shows side-by-side
boxplots investigating a relationship
between these two variables for movies made in 2018, using four of the
possible genres.
Movie budgets (in millions of dollars) based on genre
Click here for the dataset associated with this question.
Part 1
(a) Which genre appears to have the largest budgets?
Action
,Part 2
Your answer is correct.
(b)Which genre appears to have the smallest budgets?
Horror
Part 3
Correct.
(c) Which genre has the biggest spread in its budgets?
Action
Which has the smallest
spread? Comedy Horror
Part 4
Correct.
(d)Does there appear to be an association between genre of a movie
and size of the budget?
Select answer from the options below -
Correct! Yes
Investigating Hollywood Movies
In the following exercise, we use data from HollywoodMovies. The dataset
includes information on all movies to come out of Hollywood between 2012 and
2018.
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 classifying each
movie by its Genre. The computer output below gives summary statistics for
audience ratings based on genre for movies made in 2018, using four of the
possible genres.
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Genr Me Mini Me Maxi
Variable N De Q1 Q3
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, Audienc Acti 3 60. 15. 45. 60.0 72.
34 91
e Score on 0 10 97 75 0 50
Com 2 55. 19. 39. 54.0 73.
25 91
edy 2 64 98 50 0 25
Dra 5 69. 15. 56. 75.0 81.
35 97
ma 2 42 94 75 0 00
Horr 1 43. 18. 29. 38.5 62.
or 6 56 81 18 00 0 50 83
Part 1
(a) Which genre has the highest mean audience score?
Drama
The lowest mean audience score?
(b)Horror
Part 2
Correct.
(b)Which genre has the highest median score?
Drama
The lowest median score?
Horror
Part 3
(c) In which genre is the lowest score, and what is that score?
18 Horror
In which genre is the highest score, and what is that score?
97 Drama
Part 4
(d)Which genre has the largest number of movies in that category?