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This document contains an activity on statistics with multiple parts: 1. It asks to determine whether situations involve descriptive or inferential statistics and whether variables are qualitative, discrete or continuous. 2. It provides a case study on carriers used by a logistics company, asking to analyze and sort their on-time delivery percentages. 3. It also provides monthly revenue data for several web development companies, asking to create sparklines and a heat map to examine trends over six months. Sparklines were found to better communicate trends compared to the heat map.

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STAT Activity 3

This document contains an activity on statistics with multiple parts: 1. It asks to determine whether situations involve descriptive or inferential statistics and whether variables are qualitative, discrete or continuous. 2. It provides a case study on carriers used by a logistics company, asking to analyze and sort their on-time delivery percentages. 3. It also provides monthly revenue data for several web development companies, asking to create sparklines and a heat map to examine trends over six months. Sparklines were found to better communicate trends compared to the heat map.

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AC 3102 STATISTICS MW (10:30-12:00 PM)

Activity 3

Rivera, Jireh
Kato, Marina
Venancio, Abigail
Ortiz, Levi
Lambujon, Claudette

A. Determine whether each situation will involve the use of descriptive or inferential
statistics.

1.

INFERENTIAL 2. The manager of department store records the number of buying customers
daily for 5 consecutive days and the estimates the number of buying customers for the following
weeks.

DESCRIPTIVE 3. A basketball fan computes for the shooting averages of his favorite players
during the last NBA season.

4.

5.

DESCRIPTIVE 6. Liza interviews every 10th student she meets at the school campus.

INFERENTIAL7. A prospective examinee gathers data on the batting averages of two review
centers in order to decide which review center to enroll.

INFERENTIAL 8. A Nurse examines the effect of a certain diet on the weights of her weights.

INFERENTIAL9. An insurance company analyzes the effect of no- fault insurance on premium
rates

10.

B. Determine whether each of the following variables is qualitative, discrete or continuous.

1.

2.

3.

QUALITATIVE 4. Year in School (Freshman, Sophomores, etc.)


CONTINUOUS 5. IQ Score

CONTINUOUS 6. Height of a Building

7.

8.

9.

CONTINUOUS10. Speed of cars

QUALITATIVE11. Place of residence

CONTINUOUS12. Weight of package

CONTINUOUS 13. Time required to repair a TV set

QUALITATIVE 14. Birth order of children in a family

DISCRETE15. Points scored by basketball players

C. Determine whether each of the following variables is nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio.

1.

2.

4.

INTERVAL 5. IQ Score

RATIO 6. Height of a building

RATIO 7. Number of years in school

NOMINAL 8. Blood type

ORDINAL 9. Rank of teachers

RATIO 10. Speed of Cars

NOMINAL 11. Place of residence


RATIO 12. Weight of Package

13.

14.

15.

16.

RATIO17. Length of commute to school

RATIO18. PHISIX INDEX (Philippine Stock Index)

RATIO19. Number of unemployed for quarter 1

INTERVAL20. Body temperature

D.

1.

2. Ohio Logistics manages the logistical activities for firms by matching companies that need
products shipped with carriers that can provide the best rates and best service for the
companies. Ohio Logistics is very concerned that it uses carriers that get their customers'
material delivered on time, so it carefully monitors its carriers' on time percentage of deliveries.
The table from WebFile Carriers (Carriers.xls) contains a list of the carriers used by Ohio
Logistics and the corresponding on time percentages for the current and previous year.

a. sort the carriers in descending order by their current years on time percentage. Which carrier
is providing the best service in the current year? Which carrier is providing the worst service in
the current year?
Answer:
Carrier Previous Year On-time Current Year On-time
Percentage Percentage
Blue Box Shipping 88.4% 94.8%
Cheetah LLC 89.3% 91.8%
Smith Logistics 84.3% 88.7%
Granite State Carriers 81.8% 87.6%
Super Freight 92.1% 86.8%
Minuteman Company 91.0% 84.2%
Jones Brothers 68.9% 82.8%
Honsin Limited 74.2% 80.1%
Rapid Response 78.8% 70.9%

Blue Box Shipping is providing the best on-time service in the current year. Rapid Response is
providing the worst on-time service in the current year.
 b. Calculate the change in on time percentage from the previous to the current year for each
carrier. Use Excel's conditional formatting to highlight the carriers whose on time percentage
decreased from the previous year to the current year.

c. Use Excel's conditional formatting tool to create data bars for the change in on time
percentage from the previous year to the current year for each carrier calculated in part b.

 
d. Which carriers should Ohio Logistics try to use in the future? Why?

The top 4 shippers based on current year on-time percentage (Blue Box Shipping, Cheetah
LLC, Smith Logistics, and Granite State Carriers) all have positive increases from the previous
year and high on-time percentages. These are good candidates for carriers to use in the future.

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10. The table from WebDevelop shows monthly revenue for six different web development
companies.
a. Use Excel to create sparklines for sales at each company.

b. Which companies have generally decreasing revenues over the six months? Which company
has exhibited the most consistent growth over the six months? Which companies have
revenues that are both increasing and decreasing over the six months?

Timmler Company and Accelerate Inc., appear to have generally decreasing revenues over the
six months. Allen and Davis, LLC appears to have had the most consistent growth over the six
months. Blue Sky Media, Innovate Technologies and Smith Ventures have revenues that have
both increased and decrease over the six months.

c. Use Excel to create a heat map for the revenue of the six companies. Do you find the heat
map or the sparklines to be better at communicating the trend of revenues over the six months
for each company? Why?

It is difficult to create a heat map that effectively conveys the overall trend of revenues during
the six months for each company. The heat map shows the relative magnitude of the revenues
which is absent from the sparklines, but the trend for each company is less apparent.

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