SMDA – Assignment 1

Instructions:
1. Last date of submission is 12 Sep 2019 (A+BY) / 13 Sep 2019 (BX).

Q1. For the following frequency distribution table, calculate the following:
a. Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of Skewness
b. Bowley’s Measure of Skewness
c. Percentile Coefficient of Kurtosis
x 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
f 18 30 40 55 38 20 16

Q2. The U.S. Census bureau serves as the leading source of quantitative data about the nation’s people
and economy. The following crosstabulation shows the number of households (1000s) and the
household income by the highest level of education for the head of household (U.S. Census bureau
website, 2013). Only households in which the head has a high school diploma or more are included.

a. Develop a joint probability table.

b. What is the probability of the head of one of these households having a master’s degree or more
education?
c. What is the probability of a household headed by someone with a high school diploma earning
$100,000 or more?
d. What is the probability of one of these households having an income below $25,000?
e. What is the probability of a household headed by someone with a bachelor’s degree earning less
than $25,000?
f. Is household income independent of educational level?

Q3. J.D. Power and Associates surveys new automobile owners to learn about the quality of recently
purchased vehicles. The following questions were asked in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Survey, May
2012.
a. Did you purchase or lease the vehicle?
b. What price did you pay?
c. What is the overall attractiveness of your vehicle’s exterior? (Unacceptable, Average,
Outstanding, or Truly Exceptional)
d. What is your average miles per gallon?
 e. What is your overall rating of your new vehicle? (l- to 10-point scale with 1 Unacceptable
and 10 Truly Exceptional)
Comment on whether each question provides categorical or quantitative data.

Q4. A doctor’s office staff studied the waiting times for patients who arrive at the office with a request
for emergency service. The following data with waiting times in minutes were collected over a one-
month period.
2 5 10 12 4 4 5 17 11 8 9 8 12 21
6 8 7 13 18 3
Use classes of 0–4, 5–9, and so on in the following:
a. Show the frequency distribution.
b. Show the relative frequency distribution.
c. Show the cumulative frequency distribution.
d. Show the cumulative relative frequency distribution.
e. What proportion of patients needing emergency service wait 9 minutes or less?

Q5. The following observations are for two quantitative variables, x and y.

a. Develop a crosstabulation for the data, with x as the row variable and y as the column variable.
for x use classes of 10–29, 30–49, and so on; for y use classes of 40–59, 60–79, and so on.
b. Compute the row percentages.
c. Compute the column percentages.
d. What is the relationship, if any, between x and y?

Q6. Over a nine-month period, Outdoorgear Lab tested hardshell jackets designed for ice climbing,
mountaineering, and backpacking. Based on the breathability, durability, versatility, features, mobility,
and weight of each jacket, an overall rating ranging from 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest) was assigned to
each jacket tested. The following data show the results for 20 top-of-the-line jackets (Outdoorgear Lab
website, February 27, 2013).

a. Compute the mean, median, and mode.

b. Compute the first and third quartiles.
 c. Compute and interpret the 90th percentile.

Q7. Listed is a series of experiments and associated random variables. In each case, identify the values
that the random variable can assume and state whether the random variable is discrete or continuous.

Q8. The following data were collected by counting the number of operating rooms in use at Tampa
general Hospital over a 20-day period: On three of the days only one operating room was used, on five
of the days two were used, on eight of the days three were used, and on four days all four of the
hospital’s operating rooms were used.
a. Use the relative frequency approach to construct an empirical discrete probability distribution for
the number of operating rooms in use on any given day.
b. Draw a graph of the probability distribution.
c. Show that your probability distribution satisfies the required conditions for a valid discrete
probability distribution.

Q9. The following probability distributions of job satisfaction scores for a sample of information
systems (IS) senior executives and middle managers range from a low of 1 (very dissatisfied) to a high
of 5 (very satisfied).

a. What is the expected value of the job satisfaction score for senior executives?
b. What is the expected value of the job satisfaction score for middle managers?
c. Compute the variance of job satisfaction scores for executives and middle managers.
d. Compute the standard deviation of job satisfaction scores for both probability distributions.
e. Compare the overall job satisfaction of senior executives and middle managers.

Q10. The Center for Medicare and Medical Services reported that there were 295,000 appeals for
hospitalization and other Part A Medicare service. for this group, 40% of first-round appeals were
successful (the wall street Journal, October 22, 2012). Suppose 10 first-round appeals have just been
received by a Medicare appeals office.
 a. Compute the probability that none of the appeals will be successful.
b. Compute the probability that exactly one of the appeals will be successful.
c. What is the probability that at least two of the appeals will be successful?
d. What is the probability that more than half of the appeals will be successful?

Q11. Airline passengers arrive randomly and independently at the passenger-screening facility at a
major international airport. The mean arrival rate is 10 passengers per minute.
a. Compute the probability of no arrivals in a one-minute period.
b. Compute the probability that three or fewer passengers arrive in a one-minute period.
c. Compute the probability of no arrivals in a 15-second period.
d. Compute the probability of at least one arrival in a 15-second period.

Q12. Consider the experiment of selecting a playing card from a deck of 52 playing cards. Each
card corresponds to a sample point with a 1/52 probability.
a. List the sample points in the event an ace is selected.
b. List the sample points in the event a club is selected.
c. List the sample points in the event a face card (jack, queen, or king) is selected.
d. Find the probabilities associated with each of the events in parts (a), (b), and (c).