QNT561 Phoenix Statistics Concepts & Descriptive Measures Consumer Food Paper Assignment Content Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this assignment to or

QNT561 Phoenix Statistics Concepts & Descriptive Measures Consumer Food Paper Assignment Content
Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this assignment to orient students to the key concepts in statistics. This assignment will introduce students to the language of statistics. Students will also get a chance to warm-up on evaluating some basic descriptive statistics using Excel® prior to the course start.
Assignment StepsThis assignment has an Excel® dataset spreadsheet attached. You will be required to only do one of the three datasets.
Resource: Microsoft Excel®, Statistics Concepts and Descriptive Measures Data Set
Download the Statistics Concepts and Descriptive Measures Data Set.
Choose one of the following datasets to complete this assignment:
Consumer Food
Financial
Hospital

Answer each of the following in a total of 90 words:
For each column, identify whether the data is qualitative or quantitative.
Identify the level of measurement for the data in each column.
For each column containing quantitative data:
Evaluate the mean and median
Interpret the mean and median in plain non-technical terms
Use the Excel =AVERAGE function to find the mean
Use the Excel =MEDIAN function to find the median
For each column containing quantitative data:
Evaluate the standard deviation and range
Interpret the standard deviation and range in plain non-technical terms
Use the Excel =STDEV.S function to find the standard deviation
For range (maximum value minus the minimum value), find the maximum value using the Excel =MAX function and find the minimum value using the Excel’s =MIN function

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Materials:
Statistics Concepts and Descriptive Measures Grading Guide
Statistics Concepts and Descriptive Measures Data Set

Resources
Statistics Concepts and Descriptive Measures Grading Guide
Center for Writing Excellence
Reference and Citation Generator
Grammar and Writing Guides
Learning Team Toolkit

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