Descriptive Statistics in Excel (NFL PLAYERS)

By
Yawar Ali
MBA 1.5 (Finance)
Submitted to DR. Zafar Zaheer

Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar Pakistan

Session: 2019-2021
Exercise 1.

Using the 2013 NFL players data, calculate the following descriptive statistics:

a. Minimum height
b. Maximum height
c. 10th greatest height
d. 100th greatest height
e. 10th smallest height
f. 100th smallest height
g. Average height
h. Standard deviation of height

Maximum Height 206

Minimum Height 165
10th greatest Height 203.2
100th greatest height 198.12
10th smallest height 172.72
100th smallest height 177.8
Average Height 188
Standard Deviation of Height 6.75195885

Exercise 2.

Using the list of the 403 players who have ever been selected to play in the NBA
All-Star Game,
calculate the following descriptive statistics:

a. Minimum height
b. Maximum height
c. 10th greatest height
d. 100th greatest height
 e. 10th smallest height
f. 100th smallest height
g. Average height
h. Standard deviation of height

Minimum Height 175

Maximum height 226
10th greatest height 218.44
100th greatest height 205.74
10th smallest height 182.88
100th smallest height 190.5
Average height 199
Standard deviation of
height 9.233068796

Exercise 3.

Using the data provided on the average daily temperature and total daily
precipitation between
January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2014 for San Francisco, California, and
Boston Massachusetts,
calculate the following descriptive statistics:

a. Range of temperature and precipitation for each city

b. Average and median temperature and precipitation for each city

c. Standard deviation of temperature and precipitation for each city

d. Correlation between precipitation and temperature for San Francisco

e. Correlation between precipitation and temperature for Boston

f. Correlation between temperature in San Francisco and temperature in Boston

 g. Correlation between precipitation in San Francisco and precipitation in
Boston

San
Fransisco Boston
Precipitation Temperature Precipitation Temperature
Range 3.43 42 3.91 86
Average 0.048392662 58.48493976 0.122677985 52.60104053
Median 0 59 0 53
Standard Dev 0.192839686 6.506978991 0.330216436 17.15714116
Corelations
Between precipitation and -
temperature for San Francisco 0.163057485
Between precipitation and
0.001915003
temperature for Boston
Between
0.653884539
temperature in San Francisco and temperature in Boston
Between -
precipitation in San Francisco and precipitation in Boston 0.025371604