Fundamentals of

DATA Analysis
CHAPTER 2 – DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
QUESTION NO. 45

Name- Kushagra Singh

PGDM NO.22581
The DATA file Median household contains the median household income for a family
with two earners for each of the fifty states (American Community Survey, 2013).

 a. Construct a frequency and a percent frequency distribution of the median household

income. Begin the first class at 65.0 and use a class width of 5.
 b. Construct a histogram.
 c. Comment on the shape of the distribution.
 d. Which state has the highest median income for two-earner households?
 e. Which state has the lowest median income for two-earner households?
a . Construct a frequency and a percent frequency distribution of the median household income.
Begin the first class at 65.0 and use a class width of 5.
b. Construct a histogram.

Histogram
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Frequency

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65-69 70-74 75-79 80-84 85-89 90-94 95-99 100-104 105-109 110-114 More

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 Descriptive Statistics
Median Income (000's)

   

Mean 83.958

Standard Error 1.479037442

Median 80.95

Mode 79.7

Standard Deviation 10.45837405

Sample Variance 109.3775878

Kurtosis 0.318736993

Skewness 0.923952732

Range 43.6

Minimum 67.1

Maximum 110.7

Sum 4197.9

Count 50
c. Comment on the shape of the distribution

 From Descriptive Statistics, we can see that

 Skewness - 0.923952732 so, left-skewed
 Kurtosis - 3.318736993 so, (Lepto kurtic)

d. Which state has the highest median income for two-earner households?
 From Data we can see that the state of New Jersey has the highest income of 110.7

e. Which state has the lowest median income for two-earner households?
 From Data we can see that the state of Idaho has the lowest income of 67.1
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