NEU - PROBABILITY & STAITSTICS – TUTORIAL PAPER

TUTORIAL 2

EXCEL PRACTICE: Using File “PelicanStores” (in Excel Files: Chapter 2)

Using Pivot Table to build frequency and relative frequency tables

Value Field settings → Show Values At → % of Grand Total

Count of Type of Customer Column Labels

Grand
Row Labels Female Male Total
Promotional 66.00% 4.00% 70.00%
Regular 27.00% 3.00% 30.00%
Grand Total 93.00% 7.00% 100.00%

Value Field settings → Show Values At → % of Column Total

Bui Duong Hai – www.mfe.edu.vn/buiduonghai Page 1 of 4

NEU - PROBABILITY & STAITSTICS – TUTORIAL PAPER

Count of Type of Customer Column Labels

Row Labels Female Male Grand Total
Promotional 70.97% 57.14% 70.00%
Regular 29.03% 42.86% 30.00%
Grand Total 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%

Value Field settings → Show Values At → % of Row Total

Count of Type of Customer Column Labels
Row Labels Female Male Grand Total
Promotional 94.29% 5.71% 100.00%
Regular 90.00% 10.00% 100.00%
Grand Total 93.00% 7.00% 100.00%

Show Count of Age, Group by 10 years

Row Labels Count of Age
20-29 10
30-39 30
40-49 33
50-59 16
60-69 7
70-79 4
Grand Total 100

SIMPSON’S PARADOX

Two sellers: Anne and Peter, meet they customers to sell they products.

Anne Peter Total

Success 129 (86%) 110 (88%) 239
Failure 21 (14%) 15 (12%) 36
Total 150 (100%) 125 (100%)
→ Peter’s success proportion greater than Anne’s (88% > 86%)

Anne Peter
Customer’s gender Total Customer’s gender Total
Male Female Male Female
Success 29 (91%) 100 (85%) 129 Success 90 (90%) 20 (80%) 110
Failure 3 (9%) 18 (15%) 21 Failure 10 (10%) 5 (20%) 15
Total 32 (100%) 118 (100%) 150 Total 100 (100%) 25 (100%) 125
→ Anne have bigger success proportion for both male and female customers

Bui Duong Hai – www.mfe.edu.vn/buiduonghai Page 2 of 4

NEU - PROBABILITY & STAITSTICS – TUTORIAL PAPER

QUESTIONS

1. State which graph (Pareto chart, time series graph, or pie graph) would most appropriately
represent the given situation.
a) The number of students enrolled at a local college for each year during the last 5 years.
b) The budget for the student activities department at a certain college for each year during
the last 5 years.
c) The means of transportation the students use to get to school.
d) The percentage of votes each of the four candidates received in the last election.
e) The record temperatures of a city for the last 30 years.
f) The frequency of each type of crime committed in a city during the year.

MULTIPLE-CHOICE

At a meeting of information systems officers for regional offices of a national company, a

survey was taken to determine the number of employees the officers supervise in the operation
of their departments, where X is the number of employees overseen by each information
systems officer.

X 1 2 3 4 5
Freq. 7 5 11 8 9

2. Referring to the Table, how many regional offices are represented in the survey results?
A. 5
B. 11
C. 15
D. 40

3. Referring to Table 2-2, across all of the regional offices, how many total employees were
supervised by those surveyed?
A. 15
B. 40
C. 127
D. 200

4. When histograms are constructed, which axis must show the true zero or "origin"?
A. The horizontal axis
B. The vertical axis
C. Both the horizontal and vertical axes
D. Neither the horizontal nor the vertical axis

5. Data on 1,500 students’ height were collected at a larger university in the East Coast.
Which of the following is the best chart for presenting the information?
A. Pie chart
B. Stacked diagram
C. Side-by-side bar chart
D. Histogram

Bui Duong Hai – www.mfe.edu.vn/buiduonghai Page 3 of 4

NEU - PROBABILITY & STAITSTICS – TUTORIAL PAPER
6. A survey of 150 executives were asked what they think is the most common mistake
candidates make during job interviews. Six different mistakes were given. Which of the
following is the best for presenting the information?
A. Bar chart
B. Histogram
C. Cumulative line-chart
D. Cross table

7. You have collected data on the annual average amount of cash rebate offered by 6 different
brands of automobiles sold in the US in 2006 and 2007. Which of the following is the best
for presenting the data?
A. Contingency table
B. Histogram
C. Time-series plot
D. Side-by-side bar chart

TRUE OR FALSE
8. True or False: Apple Computer, Inc. collected information on the age of their customers.
The youngest customer was 12 and the oldest was 72. To study the percentage of their
customers who are below a certain age, it can use an Ogive (Pareto / Cumulative chart).

9. True or False: If you wish to construct a graph of a relative frequency distribution, you
would most likely construct Ogive chart first.

10. True or False: A side-by-side chart is two histograms plotted side-by-side.

Bui Duong Hai – www.mfe.edu.vn/buiduonghai Page 4 of 4