Stats Assignment 1

As part of a research project, you need to report the average profit as a percentage of revenue for the #1-ranked corporation in the Fortune 500 for each of the last 10 years.

Population

Statistics 201 is a course taught at a university. Professor Rauch has taught nearly 1,500 students in the course over the past 5 years. You would like to know the average grade for the course based on all 1,500 students.

Population

You are looking forward to graduation and your first job as a salesperson for one of five large pharmaceutical corporations. Planning for your interviews, you will need to know about each company's mission, profitability, products, and markets.

Population

You are shopping for a new MP3 music player such as the Apple iPod. The manufacturers advertise the number of music tracks that can be stored in the memory. Usually, the advertisers assume relatively short, popular songs to estimate the number of tracks that can be stored. You, however, like Broadway musical tunes and they are much longer. You would like to estimate how many Broadway tunes will fit on your MP3 player.

Sample

Sample

a subset of the population

Ordinal Data

assigning a number to some characteristic and has some increasing value about it (academic class)

Continuous variables

can assume an infinite number of values in a range

Discrete Values

can assume only certain values in a range

Qualitive

data collected as words or descriptions

Ratio Data

if you can measure it with a ruler (distance traveled, how many hours studied)

Nominal Data

numbers are assigned to represent some characteristic (jersey number, state of birth)

Quanitative

numerical

Interval Data

zero is not absolute and not necessarily meaningful (IQ number)