Practical no.

1 Measures of dispersion-I (Range & QD)

1. Find the range and coefficient of range:
a) 50.3, 60.2, 53.3, 55.5, 57.1, 58.9, 55.3, 54.7, 51.6, 62.9, 59.3.

b) X : 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
F: 8 13 25 39 55 69 31 20 16 9

c) Income(in Rs.): 100-200 200-300 300-500 500-600

No. of workers: 15 35 25 10

d) Marks: 0-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49

No. of students: 12 25 55 35 18

2. Find interquartile range, quartile deviation, coefficient of quartile deviation:

a) 45, 25, 23, 65, 74, 46, 25, 38, 66.
b)
Marks 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Students 5 12 36 54 66 46 35 22 18 12 3

c) Income(in Rs.): 100-200 200-300 300-400 400-500 500-600

No. of workers: 15 35 25 10 5

3. Compare which city has more variable temperature? (Use Range)

Temperature of city A: 25, 32, 33, 26, 29, 32, 25.
Temperature of city B: 45, 45, 44, 46, 39, 41, 44.

4. Use quartile deviation to compare which class has consistent performance?

First year Second year
Marks No. of students Marks No. of students
0-10 12 0-10 18
10-20 26 10-20 26
20-30 15 20-30 38
30-40 17 30-40 8

5. Calculate a suitable measure of dispersion

Profit/shop (in lakhs) 0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 Above 10
No. of shops 12 18 27 20 17 6
 Practical no. 2 Measures of dispersion-II (Mean deviation)
1. Find mean deviation from mean: 101, 151, 126, 158, 112, 136.

2. Find coefficient of mean deviation from median:

Marks 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Students 5 12 36 54 66 46 35 22 18 12 3

3. Find the mean deviation from mean & mode and compare which is least?
Income(in Rs.): 100-200 200-300 300-400 400-500 500-600
No. of workers: 15 35 25 10 5

4. Find coefficient of mean deviation from mode:

Profit/shop (in lakhs) 0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12
No. of shops 12 18 27 20 17 6

5. Find mean deviation & coefficient of mean deviation from mean:

CI 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
F 25 36 55 99 44 33 11
Practical no. 3 Measures of dispersion-III (Standard deviation)
1. Find standard deviation, variance, coefficient of variation:
145, 225, 213, 265, 174, 146, 205, 138, 166.

2. Find coefficient of variation:

X: 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
F: 2 8 12 24 45 28 18 10 7

3. Find standard deviation, variance, coefficient of variation:

Age (in yrs.) 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
No. of people 25 36 55 99 44 33 11

4. Use coefficient of variation to compare which class has consistent performance?

First year Second year
Marks No. of students Marks No. of students
0-10 12 0-10 18
10-20 26 10-20 24
20-30 15 20-30 38
30-40 17 30-40 8
40-50 10 40-50 2

Practical no. 4 Moments

1. Compute the first four raw moments for 7, 12, 8, 9, 13.

2. Compute the first four raw moments for the following data:
CI 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50
F 8 18 29 11 11

3. Compute the first four central moments for: 24, 39, 60, 71, 80.

4. Compute the first four central moments:

Profit/shop (in lakhs) 0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10
No. of shops 15 34 70 20 11

5. Compute the first four moments about 14: 8, 12, 15, 20, 23.
 Practical no. 5 Skewness & Kurtosis
1. Use moments to find the skewness of the following distribution: 25, 32, 39, 15,45.

2. Calculate Karl Pearson’s measure of skewness & comment:

X 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118
f 9 12 20 29 40 20 10 5 2

3. Calculate Karl Pearsons measure & coefficient of skewness, comment:

CI 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50
F 8 18 29 11 11

4. Calculate Bowley’s measure & coefficient of skewness, comment:

Age (in yrs.) 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
No. of people 5 10 30 45 35 15 5

5. Measure the peakedness of the following frequency curve:

X 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
f 3 7 12 20 10 5 3

6. Calculate β2 & comment: 12, 15, 16, 19, 21.

Pracs no. 6: Correlation- I

(Scatter Diagram & Karl Pearsons correlation coefficient)

1. Calculate the Karl Pearsons correlation coefficient for the following:

a)
Age of husband (in yrs) 28 30 27 26 32 29
Age of wife (in yrs) 24 25 24 20 28 26

b)
Age of mother (in yrs) 17 19 22 25 28 35
Weight of baby (in kgs.) 2.5 3 3 3.5 3 2.5

c)
Marks in Eng 78 40 50 55 52 49 60 54 59 58
Marks in Hin 70 60 50 75 69 55 70 65 65 61

2. The following data gives the heights in cms (X) & weight in kgs (Y) of a random
sample of 10 students.
X 113 125 130 115 110 125 100 113 116 126
 Y 61 68 68 64 65 70 63 62 64 67
i) Represent the data by a scatter diagram and judge the nature & extent of
correlation between X & Y.
ii) Calculate product moment correlation coefficient.

3. Calculate r.
a) n = 7, ∑x = 77, ∑y = 42, ∑xy = 448, ∑x2 = 903, ∑y2 =280.
b) n = 8, ∑(x-x)2 = 28, ∑(y-y)2 = 84, ∑(x-x)(y-y) = 46.

4. Represent the data by a scatter diagram and judge the nature & extent of
correlation between X & Y.
X 15 19 21 25 29 32
Y 10 9 7 5 4 1

5. Calculate r.
X/Y 2 4 6 8 Father’s height Son’s height (in cms)
5 0 1 2 3 (in cms) 150-160 160-170 170-180
10 1 1 2 4 150-160 1 2 -
15 2 2 1 1 160-170 - 2 3
20 3 2 0 0 170-180 - 2 2

Pracs no. 7: Correlation- II (Spearman’s Rank correlation)

1. Ranks obtained by 16 students in a class test of 2 subjects are given below. Find
rank correlation for the performance of the students in these subjects.
Ranks in Mathematics (x) & Ranks in Statistics(y).

X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Y 1 10 3 4 5 7 2 6 8 11 15 9 14 12 16 13

2. Calculate r & R.
IQ 110 110 140 120 80 90
Marks 70 60 80 60 10 20

3. Compute R.
a)
R1 1 10 5 7 6 2 9 4 3 8
R2 10 2 4 1 5 3 7 8 6 9

b)
Marks in A 43 29 35 18 40 11 49 10 5 22
Marks in B 36 16 17 14 25 16 32 0 3 20
 c)
Scores by judge A 46 45 45 47 48 42 52 50 45 49
Scores by judge B 41 40 38 38 38 35 45 46 46 49

d)
Marks in A 25 26 29 32 25 36 35 38 39 22
Marks in B 33 33 33 33 25 26 27 30 35 37

4. Find the coefficient of rank correlation for the 3 possible pairs, which pair shows
the strongest correlation?

X 80 85 87 90 97
Y 60 65 55 70 69
Z 65 72 70 80 79

Pracs no. 8: Regression I

1. Find the regression line of y on x.
X 56 58 57 60 54 57 55 56
Y 68 67 65 70 66 65 67 68

2. Find the most likely value of x, when y = 18.

X 19 27 32 28 36 20 27
Y 10 16 20 16 25 12 17

3. Find both the regression lines:

X 1 2 3 4 5
Y 2 5 3 8 7

4. A sample of 10 homes sold in an area is selected and the following data was
gathered:
Home size (in sq ft) 1400 1300 1200 950 900 1000 1300 850 1100
Selling prize (in lakh 70 62 65 45 40 53 68 40 55
Rs.)
a) Which variable is the dependent variable?
b) Find the regression equation of selling prize on home size.
c) Estimate the price of the 1000 sq. feet home using regression equation.
5. Following data refers to years of service in a factory of seven workers in a
specialized field & their monthly income (in thousands of Rs.)
Years of service 11 7 9 5 8 6 10
Income 17 15 13 12 16 14 18
Find the regression equation of income on years of service. Based on this data
what salary would u recommend to a person with one year experience.

6. An enquiry of

Pracs no. 9: Regression II

Pracs no. 10: Curve fitting

1. Fit a straight line to the following data:

X: 0 1 2 3 4
Y: 1 1.8 3.3 4.5 6.3
(Ans: y = 0.72 + 1.33x)

2. Find least square estimates of ‘a’ and ‘b’ and hence write equation of line of best
fit to the following data:
X: 6 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 10
Y: 5 5 4 5 4 3 4 3 3 (Ans: y = 8 – 0.5x)

3. Fit a second degree curve to the given data:

X: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Y: 2 6 7 8 10 11 11 10 9
(Ans: y = -1 + 3.55x – 0.27x2)

4. Fit an equation of the form y=abx to the following data:

X: 2 3 4 5 6
Y: 1.44 172.8 207.4 248.8 298.6
(Ans: y= (101.3)(1.196)x)

5. Fit a curve of the form y=aebx to the data given below:

X: 1 2 3
Y: 1.23 2.04 3.16 (Ans: y = (0.776)e0.472x)

6.
A) Fill in the blanks with correct answers.

1. If the two regression lines are x + 3y – 5 = 0 and 4x + 3y – 8 = 0. Then r is equal

to …….

2. If byx= -0.4 and bxy= -0.9. Then r = ……..

B) State, giving reasons, whether each one of the following statements is true or
false.

1. In a bivariate distribution byx = (1/5), bxy=10.

2. The regression coefficient of y on x is 3.2 and that of x on y is 0.8.
3. In a bivariate distribution byx = 2.8 and bxy =-0.3
4. The two regression coefficients are y= (1/4)x and x=(1/9)y + 1, then r=(1/6)

C) Practical problems:

1. The coefficient of correlation between demand for and supply of a certain

commodity was found to be 0.8, the average demand and supply being 25 and
22 tons respectively, find the expected demand when the supply would be 12
tons. ( Ans: 18.6)

2. Given the following regression equations:

4X-5Y+33=0, 20X-9Y-107=0, variance X =9.
Find (a) mean values of X and Y (b) standard deviation of Y (c) coefficient of
correlation between X and Y

3. The regression equation of profits in thousands(X) on sales in thousands(Y) of a

certain firm is 3Y-5X+10=0. The average sale of the firm was Rs. 44,000 and the
variance of profits was 9/16th of the variance of sales. Find the average profits
and the co-efficient of correlation between sales and profit.

4. The line of regression of Y on X for certain bivariate data is 5Y+3X=42 and the
line of regression of X on Y is 2X+Y=30.
Find (a) coefficient of correlation between X and Y
(b) the most probable value of X when Y=12

5. For bivariate distribution:

Mean value of X=52.1, mean value of Y=112.3
Variance of X=49, variance of Y=144
Correlation of coefficient r= -0.3
Find (a) the most probable value of Y when X=38
(b) the most probable value of X when Y=98
6. Given the following values, estimate the yield of wheat hen the rainfall is 15.5
cms.

Mean S.D
Yield of wheat (kg. per 10.7 8.1
unit) area
Annual rainfall(cms) 20.5 5.0
Correlation coefficient r 0.52

7. For a certain bivariate data,

Mean of X =53.2, mean of Y=27.9,
The regression coefficient of Y on X = -1.5
The regression coefficient of X on Y = -0.2
Find (a) the most probable value of Y when X =60,
(b) r, the coefficient of correlation

8. From the following data find the regression of y on x. Estimate y when x is 2.5
∑(x-x)(y-y)=46.23, ∑(x-x)2=9.60, ∑x=12, ∑y=71

9. Find the two regression equations given the following data.

Mean of x=90, mean of y=80, sd of y=4, sd of x=3, r=0.6
Find the expected value of
(a) y when x = 95
(b) x when y = 78

10. Find the two regression equations:

mean of x=15, mean of y=20, byx=3, bxy=0.7
 Pracs No.___ Index Numbers – I
1. Calculate price index number using
i) Simple aggregate method
ii) Simple average of price relatives (AM)

Commodity A B C D
P0 2 4 6 8
P1 4 8 10 12

2. Calculate quantity index number using

i) Aggregative method
ii) Arithmetic average of relatives

Item A B C D E
Base year quantity 1 2 1 3 4
Current year quantity 3 4 1 6 5
Weights 3 4 6 8 8

3. Calculate price index number using average of price relatives (By GM)

Item A B C D
P0 2 3 4 6
P1 2.5 4 6 10

4. Calculate the index number for 2010 with 2000 as base from the following data.

Price (in Rs) in 2000 Price (in Rs) in 2010 Weight

10 12 30
15 18 20
6 9 20
20 22 15
30 45 15

5. Calculate suitable index number.

Index Weight
110 25
120 15
135 35
140 30
155 05
 Pracs No.___ Index Numbers – II
1. Calculate Laspeyre’s, Paasche’s, Fisher’s, Marshall Edgeworth’s, Dorbisch
Bowleys price index number.
Commodity Base year Current year
Price Quantity Price Quantity
A 20 2 30 5
B 25 3 32 6
C 30 5 40 6
D 32 7 45 8

2. Calculate Fisher’s quantity index number.

Commodity P0 P1 Q0 Q1
A 10 20 3 5
B 25 32 5 8
C 31 40 6 10

3. Calculate Marshall Edgeworth’s price index number.

Commodity P0 P1 Q0 Q1
A 2 74 3 82
B 5 125 4 140
C 7 40 6 32

4. Calculate Dorbisch Bowleys quantity index number.

Commodity Base year Current year
Qty (in Kg) Price (in Rs) Qty (in Kg) Price (in Rs)
A 50 1.20 120 2.00
B 100 1.10 70 1.20
C 60 1.40 70 1.50
D 30 1.60 50 1.80
E 40 1.50 40 1.80

5. If Laspeyre’s price index no. equals Paasche’s price index no, find “x”
P0 Q0 P1 Q1
5 10 10 12
7 16 9 20
3 x 4 25
 Pracs No.___ Index Numbers – III
1. Convert the following fixed based index numbers to chain base index numbers.

a) Year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
FBI 100 105 109 112 115 130 140 141 135 130 150
b) Year 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
FBI 125 145 160 150 170 175 180 200

2. Convert the following chain based index numbers to fixed base index numbers.

a) Year 1995 2000 2005 2010

CBI 100 110 107 109
b) Year 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
CBI 100 125 97 103 110 108 109 112 110 115 120

3. Calculate fixed base and chain base index numbers.

a) Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 (Base 2001 for FBI)
Price (in 000’s Rs) 53 59 62.50 75 60 83 84
b) Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 (For FBI Base 2005)
Price (in 000’s Rs) 75 83 92 98 102 109

4. Change the base to 2005.

a) Year 1998 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
Index 98 93 100 102 105 110 112 118 123 129 131 136 141
b) Year 2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
Index 100 110 115 118 125 131 135 142 147 150 158

5. Splice the given series.

a)
Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Index (base 2000) 100 112 120 135
Index (base 2003) 100 110 118 125

b)
Year 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
Series A 115 120 135 150
Series B 100 105 109 120
Series C 100 105 116 120 125
 Pracs No.___ Index Numbers – IV
1. Calculate cost of living index number

a) Price in Rs (2000) 10 15 20 6 30 Base 2000

Price in Rs (2010) 12 18 22 10 45
Weight 30 20 15 25 10

b) Group Food Fuel & Lighting Clothing House Rent Miscellaneous

Index 300 250 220 150 200
Weight 47 10 08 20 15

2. If cost of living index is 193 find “a”

Group Food Clothing Fuel & Lighting Rent Miscellaneous

Index 221 198 a 183 161
Weight 35 14 15 8 20

3. The following table gives the cost of living index numbers for different commodity
groups together with their respective weights for 2000 (base 1990)

Group Food Clothing Fuel Rent Education Miscellaneous

Index 410 450 300 370 250 200
Weight 50 05 07 10 10 18

Obtain the overall cost of living index number. Suppose a person was earning Rs. 20000
in 1990, what should be his salary in 2000, if he wants to maintain the same standard of
living as of 1990?

4. Calculate real income.

Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Cost of living index no. 100 104 115 125 143 160 185 210 200
Income in (000’ Rs) 8 10 11 12 14 15 16 20 22