MGT1051 Business Analytics for Engineers Question Bank for FAT

1. Explain about measurement scales and suitable statistical tools

2. Write a detail notes on measures of central tendency and dispersion of data
3. Explain testing steps for normality
4. Ten competitors in a beauty contest are ranked by three judges in the following order

1st Judge : 1, 6, 5, 10, 3, 2, 4, 9, 7, 8

2nd Judge : 3, 5, 8, 4, 7, 10, 2, 1, 6, 9
3rd Judge : 6, 4, 9, 8, 1, 2, 3, 10, 5, 7
5. Use rank correlation to determine which pair of judges have common tastes in beauty.

6. Calculate the coefficient of correlation between marks assigned to ten students by Judge A
and Judge B in a competitive test as shown below.

Judge A: 52, 53, 42, 60, 45, 41, 37, 38, 25, 27
Judge B: 65, 68, 43, 38, 77, 48, 35, 30, 25, 50

7. Calculate the coefficient of correlation between marks assigned to ten students by Judge A
and Judge B in a competitive test as shown below.

Judge A: 50, 55, 65, 50, 55, 60, 50, 50, 65, 70, 75
Judge B: 110, 110, 115, 125, 140, 115, 130, 120, 115, 160

8. The data given in the table below are measurements in percentage of marks / rank of
undergraduate students who have got admission into (1) MBA, (2) M.Tech. and integrated
(3) MBA- M.Tech courses in Indian or foreign universities Using Discriminant analysis finds
a set of prediction equations and interpret the results
CGPA Gate GRE GMAT Course
7.1 65 90 92 1
9.0 68 62 77 3
8.8 69 88 71 2
8.9 61 56 89 3
8.8 58 61 90 3
7.6 70 91 91 1
9.1 72 66 79 3
8.2 72 91 66 2

9. The data given in the table below are measurements in millimetres of sepal length, sepal
width, petal length, and petal width of plants for three plant varieties of (1) Setosa, (2)

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 versicolor, and (3) virginica. Using Discriminant analysis finds a set of prediction equations
and interpret the results
Sepal Sepal Petal Petal Plant
Length Width Length Width Type
50 33 14 2 1
64 28 56 22 3
65 28 46 15 2
67 31 56 24 3
63 28 51 15 3
46 34 14 3 1
69 31 51 23 3
62 22 45 15 2

10. In an experiment on immunization for tuberculosis, following result is obtained. Using an

appropriate tool, discuss the effect of vaccine in controlling for tuberculosis.
Cured Not Cured
Vaccinated 12 26
Not Vaccinated 16 6

11. Random samples are drawn from two normal population and the following results were
obtained. Test with suitable statistical tool, whether the two samples have same variance at 5
% level of significance.

Sample 1: 66, 67, 75, 76, 82, 84, 88, 90, 92

Sample 2: 64, 66, 74, 78, 82, 85, 87, 92, 93, 95, 97

12. In a sample of 600 men from a certain city, 450 men are found to be smokers. In a sample of
900 from another city, 450 are found to be non-smokers. Do the data indicate that the two
cities are significantly different with respect to prevalence of smoking habits of among men?
(Consider α = 0.05)

13. Human Power, a temporary employment agency providing staffing solutions, tests the data
entry skills of people registering their names with them. InfoTech needs a data entry person
who is consistent in the data entry speed measured in terms of correct entries per minute.
Human Power has 2 potential candidates with them, whose number of correct entries per
minute is as follows:

Asha 63 66 68 62 69 72
Swati 62 79 75 59 72 84
Which candidate do you recommend for the job?

14. A college conducts both the day and night classes intended to be identical. A sample of 100
day students yield examination results as mean mark is 72.4 and standard deviation is 14.8.
Similarly for night students mean mark is 73.9 and standard deviation is 17.9. Are the two
means statistically equal at 5 % level? Interpretations your result using appropriate statistical
test.

15. Describe k- means algorithm steps in cluster analysis

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16. Illustrate steps in Factor Analysis
17. Explain steps in Classification methods
18. Explain Sequential patterns, Decision trees, Long-term memory processing and Tracking patterns
Data Mining techniques with its application
19. Describe Tracking patterns, Association, Neural networks, and Decision trees Data Mining
techniques with its application
20. Demonstrate Decision trees, Long-term memory processing, Association and Neural networks Data
Mining techniques with its application
21. Summarize data visualization techniques in advance analytics
22. Review Reports and Queries in Online Analytical Processing
23. Evaluate Geographical Information System in advance analytics

Critical Values:

F0.05, 8, 6 = 4.15 F0.05, 9,9 = 3.18 F0.05, 9, 7 = 3.68 F0.05,10,8 = 3.35

Z0.025 = ± 1.96 Z0.005 = ± 2.58 Z0.05 = + 1.645 Z0.05 = - 1.645
2 2 2 2
χ 0.05,1 = 3.84 χ 0.05,2 = 5.99 χ 0.05,3 = 7.81 χ 0.05,4 = 9.49

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