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Assignment One Intro To Stat 2025

The assignment for the Introduction to Statistics course at Mekelle University requires students to discuss and solve various statistical problems, including defining quartiles, deciles, and percentiles, and calculating them using provided data. Additionally, students must classify data types, identify populations and samples, and differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics. The assignment also includes questions on skewness and kurtosis, as well as analyzing the relationship between fertilizer usage and crop yield.

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Assignment One Intro To Stat 2025

The assignment for the Introduction to Statistics course at Mekelle University requires students to discuss and solve various statistical problems, including defining quartiles, deciles, and percentiles, and calculating them using provided data. Additionally, students must classify data types, identify populations and samples, and differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics. The assignment also includes questions on skewness and kurtosis, as well as analyzing the relationship between fertilizer usage and crop yield.

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Mekelle University

College of Business and Economics


Department of Economics
Course Title: Introduction to Statistics
Assignment (20%) Due date: February 26, 2025

Discuss the following questions in detail and show the necessary steps whenever applicable.
1. Define Quartiles, Deciles and Percentiles
2. Use the data showing final result of 100 students (Table1) and calculate
a) The first (Q1) and third (Q3) quartile
b) The forth(D4) and seventh (D7) deciles
c) The eleventh(P11) percentile
3. What are moments in statistics? What are the first and second moments? Calculate the
first and second moments using the data in Table1

Table1

45 85 90 65 78 58 60 71 59 66
82 90 88 68 77 53 65 76 59 68
80 87 92 73 86 74 48 58 57 59
51 66 56 77 67 82 94 93 67 50
67 59 55 85 80 91 57 56 86 60
55 41 84 54 67 55 76 66 57 79
92 55 74 97 81 80 67 68 88 70
76 63 79 65 92 64 97 91 73 81
77 88 64 83 54 46 49 46 67 65
51 89 82 73 85 59 80 52 81 75

4. Classify each of the following first as qualitative or quantitative and second as nominal,
ordinal, interval, or ratio measure.
a) Time for swimmers to complete a 50-meter race.
b) Months of the year: Meskerem,Tikimt,…
c) Blood type of individuals: A, B, AB and O.
d) Quintals of oil produced in Ethiopia each year.
5. Identify the scales of measurements and indicate whether the data are discrete or
continuous.

a) Number of compliant letters received by a firm’s administrator.


b) Number of tomatoes on each plant in a field.
c) Miles driven by city-bus drivers each day.
d) Weights of newborn children at Black lion hospital.
e) ID.No. of students.
f) Evaluation of an instructor from scale of one to ten by the student.
6. For a hypothetical situation below, identify the population and the sample?
a) a) Private university desires to estimate the percentage of its students who have full
time jobs. You interview 50 of its student and ask whether they hold fulltime jobs.
b) b) All persons in a kebele are called by telephone and asked to name the candidates
they favor for election to the kebele leading committee.
c) c) On five different location it took a lawyer 21, 26, 24, 22,and 21 minutes to drive
from her home to her midtown office.
7. Classify the following sentences as belonging to the areas of descriptive statistics and
inferential.
a) As a result of recent cutbacks by oil producing nations, we can expect the prices of
gasoline to double in the next year.
b) At least 5% of all killings reported last year in city X were due to tourists.
c) Adane conclude that his chance of passing the first year this academic year is at least
80% based on the statistics 75% of the freshman passed last year.
d) Calculating the mean of a sample set of scores to characterize a sample.

8. It has been observed that the amount of yield (in Kg) per hectare (Y) is determined by the
amount of fertilizer (X) in that hectare (Kg/Hectare). Data obtained from the ministry of
agriculture for a certain area gave the following summary statistics.

Y  80.9 X 2 = 117,123.86 412.81 2 Y  Regression line: Y = -4.54 + 0.1123 X

a) What change in amount of yield would be associated with 1 Kg/Hectare change in


fertilizer usage?
b) What amount of yield would you predict for a fertilizer of 90 Kg/Hectare?

9. Define Skewness and clarify by giving an example


10. What is Kurtosis? Explain by giving an example

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