Question - Age and time status of U.S. college students. The Census Bureau provides estimates of numbers of people in the United States classified in various ways.18 Let's look at college students. The following table gives us data to examine the relation between age and full-time or part-time status. The numbers in the table are expressed as thousands of U.S. college students.
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U.S. college students by age and status: October 2004
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Age (years)
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Status
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Full-time
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Part-time
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15-19
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3553
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329
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20-24
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5710
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1215
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25-34
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1825
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1864
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35 and over
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901
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1983
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(a) Give the joint distribution of age and status for this table.
(b) What is the marginal distribution of age? Display the results graphically.
(c) What is the marginal distribution of status? Display the results graphically
(d) Compute the conditional distribution of age for each of the two status categories. Display the results graphically.
(e) Write a short paragraph describing the distributions and how they differ.