MAY 2022/STA2093

ASSIGNMENT

COURSE : STATISTICS

COURSE CODE : STA2093

DURATION : 12.5.2022 – 27.5.2022 (2 weeks)

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1. This assignment aims to fulfil CLO1 – Describe the fundamental statistical techniques
for data collection, presentation, summarization, and interpretation.

2. The marks allocated for this assignment is 20% of total marks.

3. This assignment consists of THREE (3) questions.

4. Answer ALL questions.

5. The answers must be submitted to the respective lecturer through Google Classroom
OR Learning Management System (LMS) by 27 May 2022 before 11.59 pm.

6. Work in a group of a maximum of four students.

7. Write down your Group Members’ Name, ID, Subject Code and Section No. in the
front page of your answer sheet.

8. Plagiarism, copying and cheating will not be tolerated where no marks will be given,
and disciplinary actions can be taken.

DO NOT OPEN THIS QUESTION PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO

This question paper consists of 3 printed pages including the front page.
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QUESTION 1

The lecturer wants to investigate the performance of students on one of the Campuses in
Malaysia. On that particular Campus, 15 programs are being offered to the students. Out of
15 programs, she randomly selected one program consisting of all Computer Science
students as her sample. All the Computer Science students are given a set of
questionnaires to be answered during class time.

a. State the population and sample for the above study.

(2 marks)
b. Identify the variable of interest for this study and state its level of measurement.
(2 marks)
c. Name the sampling technique used by the lecturer and state the sampling frame.
(2 marks)
d. What is the data collection method used to collect data? Give one advantage of this
method.
(2 marks)

(Total: 8 marks)

QUESTION 2

Data below shows the film genre of interest by a group of students in a college.

Action Fiction Foreign Fiction Action Romance Fiction Drama

Foreign Horror Fiction Comedy Fiction Comedy Action Romance

Romance Action Comedy Comedy Romance Drama Foreign Fiction

Drama Horror Horror Drama Foreign Horror Fiction Comedy

Action Drama Action Action Comedy Action Fiction Foreign

a. Construct frequency table for these data.

(3 marks)
b. Based on the frequency table in Question 2a above, draw a bar chart and pie chart.
(6 marks)

(Total: 9 marks)

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QUESTION 3

The following data give the time (in minutes) taken to commute from home to work for 50
workers.

66 53 48 13 78 48 83 79 71 81
43 76 70 8 59 28 18 35 31 73
8 69 37 77 72 38 35 42 61 31
4 74 54 5 3 81 59 14 47 10
68 88 74 77 23 22 1 25 51 53

a. Using MS Excel, find for the above data, the

i. mean
ii. median
iii. mode
iv. standard deviation
v. skewness
(10 marks)
b. Explain the meaning of each of the value obtained in (a).
(10 marks)
c. Calculate the coefficient of variation.
(3 marks)

(Total: 23 marks)

(TOTAL: 40 MARKS)

END OF QUESTIONS

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