Kinnaird College for Women

PRE-MID ASSIGNMENT 1

Course name: Statistical Software Applications

Course Instructor: Ms. Shaista Shumaila

Submitted By: Hafiza Sehrish Khan

Major: Economics

Semester 6
 Quantitative set of data
The following data give the number of shoplifters apprehended during each of the past 8
weeks at a large department store.

7 1 08 3 1 51 26 1 1

 MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY:

Statistics
shoplifters

Valid 9
N
Missing 0
Mean 11.00
Median 3.00
Mode 1
INTERPRETAION:

The distribution is skewed towards right which means it is positively skewed and the mean is
greater than median and median is greater than mode.

MEASURE OF SCATTERNESS:

Descriptive Statistics

N Std. Deviation Variance

shoplifters 9 17.007 289.250

Valid N (listwise) 9

INTERPRETATION:
As standard deviation value is near to the mean value, so we concluded that the data is less
scatter.

QUESTION NO 2:
The following data give the numbers of computer keyboards assembled at the Twentieth
Century Electronics Company for a sample of 25 days.

45 52 48 41 56 46 44 42 48 53 51 53 51 48 46 43 52 50 54 47 44 47 50 49 52

SOLUTION:

MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY:

Statistics
computer_keyboards MEASURE OF SCATTERNESS:
Valid 25
N
Missing 0
Mean 48.48
Median 48.00
Mode 48a

a. Multiple modes exist. The

smallest value is shown

computer_keyboards
 Valid 25
N
Missing 0
Std. Deviation 3.980
Variance 15.843
Skewness -.119
Std. Error of Skewness .464