I need help with my QNT 561 Week One assignment.
I need help with my QNT 561 Week One assignment.
Statistics Concepts and Descriptive Measures
oDue Oct 16, 6:00pm (PST)
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- 1.4
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 Excel®, 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:
For each column, identify whether the data is qualitative or quantitative.
Identify the level of measurement for the data in each column.
For each column containing quantitative data:
oEvaluate the mean and median
oInterpret the mean and median in plain non-technical terms
oUse the Excel =AVERAGE function to find the mean
oUse the Excel =MEDIAN function to find the median
For each column containing quantitative data:
oEvaluate the standard deviation and range
oInterpret the standard deviation and range in plain non-technical terms
oUse the Excel =STDEV.S function to find the standard deviation
oFor 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
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