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NO PLAGIARISM, MUST BE ORIGINAL WORK
THIS IS A 2 PART ASSIGNMENT THAT REQUIRES CALCULATIONS TO BE DONE ON EXCEL AND A LITTLE WRITING ON EITHER EXCEL OR WORD. WHICH EVER IS FINE.
ALL WORK MUST BE SHOWN WITH FORMULAS IN THE COLUMNS. ANSWERS ALONE ARE NOT SUFFICIENT
ANY REFERENCES USED BE SURE CITE PROPERLY AND ALL REFERENCES MUST BE LISTED IN APA FORMAT.
FOLLOW ALL GUIDLINES AND MEET ALL WORD COUND FOR EACH INDIVISUAL ANSWER
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:
- 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
- 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
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Company
Type
AFLAC
Albertson's
Allstate
Amerada Hess
American General
American Stores
Amoco
Arco Chemical
Ashland
Atlantic Richfield
Bausch & Lomb
Baxter International
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Burlington Coat
Central Maine Power
Chevron
CIGNA
Cinergy
Dayton Hudson
Dillard's
Dominion Resources
Dow Chemical
DPL
E. I. DuPont DeNemours
Eastman Chemical
Edison International
Engelhard
Entergy
Equitable
Ethyl
Exxon
FPL Group
The GAP
Georgia Gulf
GIANT Food
A&P
Great Lakes Chemicals
Green Mountain Power Company
Hannaford Bros.
Hercules
Houston Industries
Jefferson-Pilot
Johnson & Johnson
Liberty
The Limited
Lincoln National
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