APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS
APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS
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ISBN: 9781259957598
Author: DOANE
Publisher: RENT MCG
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Chapter 4, Problem 64CE

Below are monthly rents paid by 30 students who live off campus. (a) Find the mean, median, and mode. (b) Do the measures of central tendency agree? Explain. (c) Calculate the standard deviation. (d) Sort and standardize the data. (e) Are there outliers or unusual data values? (f) Using the Empirical Rule, do you think the data could be from a normal population?

Chapter 4, Problem 64CE, Below are monthly rents paid by 30 students who live off campus. (a) Find the mean, median, and

a.

Expert Solution
Check Mark
To determine

Find the mean, median and mode of the rent of the students who lived off campus.

Answer to Problem 64CE

The mean, median and mode of the rent of the students who lived off campus are:

MeasuresValues
Mean724.7
Median720
Mode730

Explanation of Solution

Calculation:

The data set represents the rents of the number of students who live off campus on a sample of 30 students.

Measures of center:

  • Mean is defined as sum of observed values divided by the number of observations involved.
  • Median is the middle value in an ordered sequence of data.
  • Mode is the most frequently occurring value in a data set.

Mean, median and mode:

Software procedure:

Step-by-step procedure to find the mean, the median and the mode using the MINITAB software:

  • Choose Stat > Basic Statistics > Display Descriptive Statistics.
  • In Variables enter the columns Data.
  • Choose option statistics, and select Mean, Median and Mode.
  • Click OK.

Output using the MINITAB software is given below:

  • APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS, Chapter 4, Problem 64CE , additional homework tip  1
  • Thus, the mean, the median and the mode has been obtained.

b.

Expert Solution
Check Mark
To determine

Explain whether or not the measures of center agreed.

Answer to Problem 64CE

Yes, the measures of center are agreed.

Explanation of Solution

In this situation, the median and the mode obtained are almost equal. Thus, the measures of center will be acceptable for the rent of the students who lived off campus on 30 students.

c.

Expert Solution
Check Mark
To determine

Find the standard deviation.

Answer to Problem 64CE

The standard deviation is 114.3.

Explanation of Solution

Calculation:

Standard deviation:

Standard deviation is a measure of the deviations that take place in the values of a dataset from the mean in the observation. It is measured by dividing the sum of the squares of deviations of each value from the mean, by the total number of observations and taking square root of this quantity.

Software procedure:

Step-by-step procedure to find the standard deviation using the MINITAB software:

  • Choose Stat > Basic Statistics > Display Descriptive Statistics.
  • In Variables enter the columns X.
  • Choose option statistics, and select Standard deviation.
  • Click OK.

Output using the MINITAB software is given below:

  • APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS, Chapter 4, Problem 64CE , additional homework tip  2
  • Thus, the standard deviation has been obtained.

c.

Expert Solution
Check Mark
To determine

Arrange the data and standardize the data.

Answer to Problem 64CE

The standardized value of rents dataset is given below:

0.04640.04640.04641.7962-0.2161-1.3535
-0.30362.67100.1339-0.9160-0.0411-0.4786
-1.44090.1339-0.6535-0.56611.09621.7962
-1.0910-0.91600.3088-0.3036-0.1286-1.9659
0.04640.65880.83381.0087-0.0411-0.2161

Explanation of Solution

Here, the data is sorted in the ascending order.

Sorting:

Software procedure:

Step-by-step procedure to sort the data in ascending using the EXCEL is given below:

  • Open an EXCEL file.
  • Enter the data in the column in A cells A1 to A30.
  • Choose Data > Sort.
  • In Column drop down box, select Column A.
  • In Sort on drop down box, select Values.
  • In Order drop down box, select “Smallest to Largest”.
  • Click OK.

Thus, the sorted data has been stored in the column in A cells A1 to A30.

Standardized z-score:

Standardized z-score of an observation is defined the number of standard deviations the observation is away from the mean. The standardized z-score is also known as the standard score. The standardized z-score is obtained by,

z=xμσ.

Where, x denotes the value of the observation, μ denotes the population mean and σ denotes the population standard deviation.

Standardized values:

Software procedure:

Step-by-step software procedure to obtain standardized values using EXCEL software is as follows:

  • Open an EXCEL file.
  • Enter the data in the column A in cells A1 to A30.
  • In cell B1, enter the formula “=STANDARDIZE(A1, 724.7, 114.3)”.
  • Select “ENTER” option.
  • Select and copy the cell B1 and drag till the 30th cell.
  • Output using EXCEL software is given below:

APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS, Chapter 4, Problem 64CE , additional homework tip  3

Thus, the standardized values have been obtained using EXCEL.

e.

Expert Solution
Check Mark
To determine

Check whether the observation has any outlier or unusual observation.

Answer to Problem 64CE

No, there is no outlier, but there is an unusual observation, 1,030.

Explanation of Solution

Calculation:

Based on the standardized z-score, an observation is described as follows:

  • Unusual if |zi|>2(beyond μ±2σ)
  • Outlier if |zi|>3(beyond μ±3σ)

It is observed from the output obtained in previous part (d), the observation 1,030 has the standardized score of 2.67 which is greater than 2 and it is said to be unusual. Therefore, the observation has one unusual value.

f.

Expert Solution
Check Mark
To determine

Identify whether the observation follows normal population based on Empirical rule.

Answer to Problem 64CE

The distribution of the data set may be approximately normal.

Explanation of Solution

Empirical Rule:

The Empirical Rule for a Normal model states that:

  • Within 1 standard deviation of mean, 68.26% of all observations will lie.
  • Within 2 standard deviations of mean, 95.44% of all observations will lie.
  • Within 3 standard deviations of mean, 99.73% of all observations will lie.

Empirical rule using MEGASTAT:

Software procedure:

Step-by-step software procedure to obtain Empirical rule using Mega Stat software is as follows:

  • Open an EXCEL file.
  • Enter the data in the column A in cells A1 to A30.
  • From the Add-Ins, Select Mega Stat >Descriptive statistics.
  • A dialogue box appears.
  • In Input range box, select the input range from Sheet1!$A$1:$A$30.
  • From the list box, select Empirical rule.
  • Click “OK”.

Output obtained using MEGA STAT is as follows:

APPLIED STAT.IN BUS.+ECONOMICS, Chapter 4, Problem 64CE , additional homework tip  4

The upper and lower bound for the observation has been obtained using Empirical rule.

Based on the z-scores, the observation has no outliers and has only one unusual observation, that is, the observations with value 1,030 does not lie within the 2-standard deviations limits (496.10 to 953.23). Therefore, the distribution of the data set may be approximately normal.

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