Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela

AR 1: Statistical Analysis with Software Application

GROUP ACTIVITY # 1

Name:_________________________ Date Submitted:__________________

Section:________________________ Instructor: Ms. Fatima Perez

General Instruction: Answer the following problems. Put the tables, charts, and your answer to the questions in a
docx file.

1.. Refer to the sample of 479 retirement funds in the XYZ financial services scenario, stored in RetirementFunds.xlsx.

a. Construct a summary table of the retirement funds, categorized by market cap.

b. Construct a contingency table of the retirement funds, according to risk level and star rating.

2. A survey of online shoppers revealed that in a recent year they bought more of their purchases online than in stores.
The data in OnlineShopping.xlsx reveal how their purchases were made.

a. Construct a bar chart, a pie, and a Pareto chart.

b. Which graphical method do you think is best for portraying these data?
c. What conclusions can you reach concerning how online shoppers make purchases?

3. A survey of 1,520 adults asked, “do you feel overloaded with too much information?” The results indicate that 23% of
females fell information overload compared to 17% of males. The results are:

GENDER
OVERLOADED Male Female Total
Yes 134 170 304
No 651 565 1,216
Total 785 735 1,520

a. Construct a side-by-side chart of overloaded with too much information and gender.
b. What conclusions can you reach from this chart?

4. The file Protein.xlsx contains calorie and cholesterol information for popular protein foods (fresh red meats, poultry,
and fish).

a. Construct frequency and percentage distributions for the number of calories.

b. Construct frequency and percentage distributions for the amount of cholesterol.
c. Construct a scatter plot of the number of calories and the amount of cholesterol.
d. What conclusions can you reach from the visualizations?

5. How have stocks performed in the past? The data stored in StockPerformance.xlsx shows the performance of a broad
measure of stocks (by percentage) for each decade from the 1830s through 2018.

a. Construct a time-series plot of the stock performance from the 1830s to the 2010s.
 b. Does there appear to be any pattern in the data?

6. College basketball in the United States is big business with television contracts in the billions of dollars and coaches’
salaries in the millions of dollars. The file CoachesPay.xlsx contains the total pay for coaches for a recent year and
whether the school was a member of a major conference.

For each of the two groups (member of a major conference or not):

a. Construct frequency and percentage distributions.

b. Construct a histogram and a percentage polygon.
c. What conclusions can you reach about the differences in coaches pay between colleges that belonged to a
major conference and those that do not.