Reference no: EM132426211

Purpose of Assignment

• The purpose of this assignment to orient students to the key concepts in statistics. This assignment will introduce students to the language of statistics. Students will also get a chance to warm-up on evaluating some basic descriptive statistics using Excel prior to the course start.

Assignment Steps

• This assignment has an Excel® dataset spreadsheet attached. You will be required to only do one of the three datasets.

• Resource: Microsoft Exce, Statistics Concepts and Descriptive Measures Data Set

• Download the Statistics Concepts and Descriptive Measures Data Set.

Choose one of the following datasets to complete this assignment:

• Consumer Food
• Financial
• Hospital

Answer each of the following in a total of 90 words:

1. For each column, identify whether the data is qualitative or quantitative.

2. Identify the level of measurement for the data in each column.

3. For each column containing quantitative data:

• Evaluate the mean and median
• Interpret the mean and median in plain non-technical terms
• Use the Excel =AVERAGE function to find the mean
• Use the Excel =MEDIAN function to find the median

4. For each column containing quantitative data:

• Evaluate the standard deviation and range
• Interpret the standard deviation and range in plain non-technical terms
• Use the Excel =STDEV.S function to find the standard deviation
• For range (maximum value minus the minimum value), find the maximum value using the Excel =MAX function and find the minimum value using the Excel's =MIN function