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This document contains 10 questions about calculating and interpreting measures of central tendency (mean, median) and dispersion (variance, standard deviation) from sample data sets. It asks the reader to compute these values from given data and interpret what they say about the data distribution. It also contains questions about how these statistics would change if the data was modified in some way, such as by removing outliers or adding a constant to each value. The goal is to demonstrate computational procedures for and conceptual understanding of commonly used descriptive statistics.

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SM Tutorial Sheet-1

This document contains 10 questions about calculating and interpreting measures of central tendency (mean, median) and dispersion (variance, standard deviation) from sample data sets. It asks the reader to compute these values from given data and interpret what they say about the data distribution. It also contains questions about how these statistics would change if the data was modified in some way, such as by removing outliers or adding a constant to each value. The goal is to demonstrate computational procedures for and conceptual understanding of commonly used descriptive statistics.

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SIMULATION

MODELING
TUTORIAL SHEET - 1
Q1. The following data represent a sample of the time to complete a certain task in minutes
and seconds (mm:ss).
6:30, 11:15, 6:22, 11:32, 8:12, 5:02, 9:17, 6:51, 8:44, 7:45, 9:37, 7:28, 4:29, 7:42
a. Compute the mean.
b. Compute the standard deviation.
Q2. Given the following sample data set:
6, 12, 9, 7, 8, 4, 3, 12, 15
a. Compute the mean.
b. What is the median?
c. What is the mode?
d. Compute the variance.
e. Compute the standard deviation.
Q3. The following sample data of the number of communications are taken from logs of
communication with Distance Education students:
5, 9, 5, 23, 27, 55, 34, 7, 30, 15, 22, 60, 14, 52, 297, 8, 51, 15, 51, 35, 15, 39, 137, 43, 38, 14, 93, 7
a. Compute the mean.
b. Compute the standard deviation.
c. Which is a better representation of the central tendency: mean or median?
Q4. If the two largest values in the sample data set of the previous problem were omitted,
a. Compute the mean.
b. Compute the standard deviation.
c. Which is a better representation of the central tendency: mean or median?
Q5. At the beginning of the 2015-16 academic year the number of years the full-time teaching faculty
had been at college were:
13, 5, 20, 1, 8, 0, 3, 9, 31, 8, 2, 16, 1, 3, 19, 9, 0, 6, 8, 0, 3, 10, 18, 24, 5, 11, 15, 4, 4, 4, 36, 5, 4, 5, 3,
0, 3, 9, 17, 0, 13, 4, 15, 8, 5, 20, 19, 24, 6, 6, 9, 0, 37
a. What is the mean?
b. What is the median?
c. Which is a better measure of the center of the data set?
Q6. Consider the following three data sets A, B and C.
A = {9,10,11,7,13} B = {10,10,10,10,10} C = {1,1,10,19,19}
a) Calculate the mean of each data set.
b) Calculate the standard deviation of each data set.
c) Which set has the largest standard deviation?
d) Is it possible to answer question (c) without calculations of the standard deviation?
Q7. A given data set has a mean and a standard deviation .
a) What are the new values of the mean and the standard deviation if the same constant k=5 is added
to each data value in the given set?
b) What are the new values of the mean and the standard deviation if each data value of the set is
multiplied by the same constant k=5 ?
Q8. If the standard deviation of a given data set is equal to zero, what can we say about the data
values included in the given data set?
Q9. The following data gives the lengths for a sample of 25 drill bits:
25
29
23
27
25
23
22
25
22
28
28
28
17
24
30
19
17
23
21
24
15
20
26
19
23
(i) Calculate the standard deviation of the data above.
(ii) Draw a histogram for the data.
Q10. Mean and standard deviation of 100 observations were found to be 40 and 10, respectively. If at
the time of calculation two observations were wrongly taken as 30 and 70 in place of 3 and 27
respectively, find the correct standard deviation.

Date of Submission : 18th Jan,2017

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