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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

Module : BUSINESS STATISTICS

Submission : Seminar Session 6

Individual Assignment (20%)

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS

1. This individual assignment comprises 15% of your total grade for this module.

2. This assignment contains TWO (2) question, with TOTAL MARKS OF 100.
You must answer ALL the questions.

3. This is an individual-based assignment. You should complete the assignment on your

own and no collusion will be allowed.

4. You are to use the Assignment Cover Sheet provided by the University, which include
the following details: Course Title, Assignment Title, Name and Student Number and
Submission Date.

5. You should type out all your answers in Times New Roman, 12 points, justify with 1.5
line spacing. Non-conformance will affect marks allocated for presentation of the
report.

6. You should print out one (1) hard copy of your answers and submit it to your tutor by
the submission deadline. Each student should only submit one (1) hard copy of the
answers; please do not submit multiple copies.

7. Students should keep a copy of the submitted assignment.

IMPORTANT: The University takes a very serious view of plagiarism and collusion and will
not accept any form of cheating in a student’s work, including this assignment. Hence, please
ensure that you always provide proper references when using other people’s ideas, words or
pictures, including diagrams.
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Assignment Question 1

Select an article from the local newspaper that contains descriptive statistical
information/table/analysis. Take a photo of the article and incorporate it in your report.
Interpret the report in your own words and how the information presented is useful for you. In
your report, you should also mention the statistical concept that has been used in the article
(for example, Mean, Median, Mode etc.).
Your report should be between 700 – 800 words.
(40 marks)

Assignment Question 2

Singapore is a country with high increase number of tourists every year. Natural attraction
and various tourist site are available in this country. Tourists to Singapore came from various
countries. You have been tasked to analyze the tourist origin (country residence).
Refer to the data set (STB_Tourist_data.xls) and complete the following analysis:

(i) Compile and present the tourist number data in terms of each continent its
countries represent, from YEAR 2002 to YEAR 2012, in table format in your
report.

Date Air passenger Air passenger Air passenger

arrival number departures number transits number
2002 13727235 13647094 1605015
2003 11587576 11555111 1521450
2004 14336358 1426975 1747532
2005 15364071 15356295 1710490
2006 16677822 16690277 1664984
2007 17639557 17581646 1480353
2008 18185230 18102820 1406774
2009 18026026 18062970 1114982
2010 20486451 20437265 1115061
2011 22778149 22651114 1114582
2012 25055954 24853645 1272205
Total 193864429 193207912 15753428

(20 marks)
(ii) Using appropriate descriptive statistics indicators, describe the yearly tourist
number of ASIA continent from YEAR 2004 to YEAR 2013 and construct the
bar chart using Microsoft Excel.
Mean 17624039
Standard Error 1201907.491
Median 17639557
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 Mode -
Standard Deviation 3986276.181
Sample Variance 1.58904E+13
Kurtosis -0.15463145
Skewness 0.470881057
Range 13468378
Minimum 11587576
Maximum 25055954
Sum 193864429
Count 11

GRAPH BELUM BUAT

(16 marks)
(iii) Using appropriate descriptive statistics indicators, describe the Tourist number
of all countries in Asia and all countries in Europe from YEAR 2007 to YEAR
2013 and construct the bar chart using Microsoft Excel.
(24 marks)

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