# file32.txt # # Reference: # # John Hartigan, # Clustering Algorithms, # Wiley, 1975. # ISBN 0-471-35645-X # LC: QA278.H36 # Dewey: 519.5'3 # # The results of a 31 question survey are reported. # # "Q#" is the question number. # # "Qtext" is the text of the question. # # "S1" through "S8" are the responses of 8 students, with # 1 = strongly disagree # 2 = disagree # 3 = neutral # 4 = agree # 5 = strongly agree # "Questionnaire about Data Analysis Course, Hartigan page 224" 10 columns 31 rows "Q#" "Qtext" "S1" "S2" "S3" "S4" "S5" "S6" "S7" "S8" 01 "I learned a lot" 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 5 02 "Statisticians can get along without most of this stuff." 4 1 2 1 3 2 2 2 03 "If I had know what it was like I wouldn't have taken it." 1 1 3 1 4 1 1 4 04 "The course should be given before consulting work." 5 3 2 4 4 5 4 5 05 "I think I will be able to use most of the material." 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 06 "The course was interesting" 5 5 4 4 4 5 5 4 07 "I was thrown into the computer without preparation." 4 1 2 3 3 3 1 2 08 "A working knowledge of FORTRAN should be a prerequisite." 4 5 4 2 3 4 5 3 09 "More emphasis should be placed on complete packages." 3 2 3 1 3 3 2 2 10 "My mathematical background was sufficient." 5 5 4 5 3 5 5 4 11 "I didn't know enough statistical theory to understand." 2 1 2 1 4 2 1 2 12 "Too much was assumed about elementary data analysis." 3 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 13 "I was adequately prepared." 3 5 4 3 2 4 5 3 14 "I had to do too much work myself." 3 3 5 2 1 2 1 3 15 "I spent to much time at the Computer Center fiddling." 4 5 5 4 1 4 1 3 16 "The computing was more fun than the statistics." 3 4 3 3 5 5 1 3 17 "There weren't enough interesting data sets." 3 4 5 4 3 4 2 4 18 "There should be more packaged programs." 3 2 3 1 4 4 2 2 19 "I want to write my own subroutines." 4 4 1 2 2 2 3 4 20 "We shouldn't waste a session on student projects." 1 1 4 2 2 2 1 3 21 "I would prefer not to have my work criticized in public." 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 22 "The level of student participation is about right." 4 4 1 4 3 4 3 3 23 "We went through too much, too fast, to grasp anything." 4 5 4 4 5 4 1 2 24 "I want more correlations and factor analysis." 4 2 3 4 4 4 2 3 25 "We spent too much time on clustering." 3 2 4 2 4 4 2 2 26 "We should consider only real variables, let 0-1 category go." 3 4 4 2 1 2 1 3 27 "We need to discuss time series." 4 3 3 4 1 4 4 4 28 "Too much emphasis on trivial data analysis like plots." 2 2 4 4 1 2 2 2 29 "More time on regression and analysis of variance." 4 4 2 3 1 5 3 4 30 "A more mathematical treatment, please." 3 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 31 "The course content was about right." 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 4