Quantitative Research in Public Administration

Course Code: PA-224

 Example 4.7.1: The management of a factory wants to know the family structure
of the workers of his factory to educate their children. For this, they collected data
on the number of children from the 45 workers of his factory. They are as follows:
2, 3, 5, 2, 1, 0, 3, 5, 3, 6, 44, 3, 5, 6, 1, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 1, 6, 2, 4, 5, 1, 4, 4, 2, 5, 4, 3,
5, 3,4, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 1, 6, 4, 5, 4, 4.
Construct a frequency table with the above data. (Page
no: 58)

 Example 4.10.2: The following frequency distribution refers to the number of

children of 45 workers of a factory: (Page no:72)

Number of children: X Frequency

0 1
1 4
2 5
3 6
4 16
5 9
6 4
Total 45

 Example 4.15.1: The scales of a firm for he past 12-year are given below:
(Pageno:88)
Year 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 200 2004 2005 2006
3
Scale (in 235 355 395 420 455 490 430 485 520 575 570 590
thousand
tk)

 Example 4.16.1: The following data refer to the ages of 60 employees of a firm.

33, 41, 21, 25, 36, 38,35, 36, 35, 37, 42, 30, 35, 37, 36, 38, 30, 54, 40, 48, 15, 28,
51, 42, 25, 41, 30 ………………46, 48.
 I. Construct a frequency table with suitable class interval
II. Draw histogram, ogive curve with the frequency table. (Page
no:89)

 Example 5.3.4: The following frequency distribution refers to the number of

children per family of 75 workers of a factory.
(Page no- 104)
Number of children: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
X
Number of families: 3 5 10 16 25 12 4
f

Compute the average number of children per family of the workers of the factory

 Example 5.4.11: Suppose the annual salaries in tk of 7 employees in a small

company are 17,000, 20000, 28,ooo, 18000, 1000, 120,000, and 24000.
Find arithmetic mean & median salary of the employees and comment. Page no-127

 Example 5.4.7: The following frequency distribution refers to the number of

hours worked per month 0f 50 workers of a factory
Number 30-55 55-80 80-105 105-130 130-155 155- 180-205
of hours 180
worked
per
month
Number 3 4 6 9 12 11 5
of
workers

Compute median of the frequency distribution. Page no-120

 Example 6.7.1: The following relate to the marks obtained by nine students in a
class test:
3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 12
 Find mean deviation about mean, median, mode and comment. Page no-169

 Example: 6.7.4: Calculate mean deviation and coefficient of mean deviation from
mean the following frequency distribution:

Class interval 1-3 3-5 5-7 7-9 9-11

Frequency 1 4 6 4 1

 Example: 11.7.1: The following data relate to advertising expenditure (in lakhs of
tk) and sales (in crores of tk) f a firm:

Advertising expenditure 10 12 15 20 23
Sales 14 17 23 21 25

Compute the coefficient correlation between advertising expenditures and sales and comment on
the value of r. page no-326
 Example 12.8.4: Researcher wants to find out if there are is any relationship
between the height of the sons and heights of the fathers. He took a random
sample of seven fathers and their seven sons. Their heights in inches are given
below:

Height of 68 63 66 67 65 67 66
father:
Height of 70 66 65 69 68 67 64
the son

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