GG274 Homework 9: Bootstrap Confidence Intervals

GG274 Homework 9: Bootstrap Confidence Intervals#

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Introduction#

In this homework you will construct a bootstrap confidence interval around a sample mean of time spent driving, for those people in the survey who reported more than 0 minutes of driving.

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import seaborn as sns

durl313            Duration - Travel - Car - Driver

           VALUE  LABEL
               0  No time spent doing this activity
            9996  Valid skip
            9997  Don't know
            9998  Refusal
            9999  Not stated

           Data type: numeric
           Missing-data codes: 9996-9999
           Record/columns: 1/362-364

Step 1 - Read the time use survey data into a pandas DataFrame#

a) The data is stored in gss_tu2016_week9.csv .

Use the pandas function read_csv to read the data into a pandas DataFrame named time_use_df.

# Write your code below

b) Use time_use_df to create a another DataFrame called drive_time_df that has two columns: 'CASEID', 'durl313' (in that order).

# Write your code below

c) Rename the column names of drive_time_df using the following table. The DataFrame with the new column names should be called drive_time_df (i.e., don’t change the name of the DataFrame).

Original column name

New column name

CASEID

ID

durl313

drv_time

 
# Write your code below

Step 2 - Select only those participants who drove and create new pandas DataFrame.#

a) In this step you will select only those survey participants who drove (i.e., their drv_time value is greater than 0 and not 9996, 9997, 9998, or 9999.

First, create a pandas Series called driver where a value is True if the person drove and False if they did not.

# Write your code below

b) Create a new DataFrame subset_drive_time_df by selecting the rows in drive_time_df where the person drove.

# Write your code below

Step 3 - Calculate the mean of how much time drivers spent driving#

In this step you will compute the mean of how much time drivers spent driving and store it in a variable called drive_time_avg.

# Write your code below

Step 4 - Create a function that generates a bootstrap sample from subset_drive_time_df#

In the below cell, create a function called one_bs_mean that calculates a bootstrap sample mean called dt_bsmean_sample from subset_drive_time_df.

# Write your code below

# test your function
one_bs_mean()

Step 5 - Compute a distribution of bootstrap sample means#

a) Create an empty list called bootstrap_means and then a loop that populates this list with 10,000 bootstrap sample means (generated from calling your one_bs_mean function).

# This code sets a random seed so the code below generates the same results
# Don't change this!
np.random.seed(274)

# Write your code below

b) Plot bootstrap_means as a histogram using a color argument of cyan and edgecolor of red. Save the histogram to bootstrap_means_histogram.

# Write your code below

Step 6 - Report the 95% confidence interval of the sample mean of how much time drivers spend driving#

a) Compute the 2.5th percentile from the distribution bootstrap_means using the np.percentile(). Save the percentile to bootstrap_means_2p5_percentile.

# Write your code below

# test your code
bootstrap_means_2p5_percentile

b) Compute the 97.5th percentile from the distribution bootstrap_means using the np.percentile(). Save the percentile to bootstrap_means_97p5_percentile.

# Write your code below

# test your code
bootstrap_means_97p5_percentile

c) Complete the following sentence reporting the 95% bootstrap confidence interval, rounded to two decimal points.

Answer: A 95% bootstrap confidence interval for the sample mean of driving time for drivers is __ to __ minutes.

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