Statistics and Research Methodology

Assignment-1

1. Collect the data (at least 50 observations) on closing daily stock market prices of any
company.
2. Present the data values you have collected in an appropriate manner.
3. Based on these data, obtain the values of --
i) Arithmetic Mean,
ii) Median,
iii) Mode,
Verify and comment on whether the relationship among the above three measures of
central tendency holds good for your data set.
iv) 6 th decile,
v) 90th percentile,
vi) Range,
vii) Inter quartile range,
viii) Quartile deviation,
ix) Coefficient of quartile deviation,
x) Standard Deviation.
4. Prepare a frequency distribution table with appropriate class intervals.
5. Draw a Histogram, a frequency polygon, and ogive curves using the frequency
distribution table. Verify some of the values obtained in Item 2 above, with what you
have obtained from the histogram and the ogives. Comment on the basis of each graph.
6. Find less than and more than cumulative frequencies.
7. Find the relative frequencies and construct a relative frequency polygon
8. Which concepts of Statistics you have used to solve this assignment.
Provide evidence of extensive use of MS Excel while carrying out this assignment.

Assignment -2

Companies from the same sector perform in a similar way.

Prove or disprove this claim by collecting data for different companies from a specific sector for
an appropriate time period.

Submit this assignment in the following format --

 1. The hypothesis to be tested,
2. Sector selected,
3. Companies selected,
4. Time period for data collection,
5. Data table,
6. Analysis tables,
7. Graphs, if any,
8. Conclusion.

Hint:

i) Use ANOVA
ii) Data can be collected from financial newspapers, magazines, internet, CMIE
database etc.