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TBS 902 Statistics for Decision Making – Trimester 1 2014

Assignment 1

Additional Information

1. Your Assignment should be presented as a business report and the format should be

as follows:

 Cover Page

 Executive Summary

 Content Page

 The Business Problem

 The Statistical Problem

 Analysis

 Conclusions

 Implications and Recommendations

For more information, please refer to presentation of assignment document on

Moodle site.

2. Start your assignment after the lecture on ‘Descriptive Statistics” in week 2. If you

are not sure of how to approach please discuss with me.

3. Before you start your assignment, read carefully the case description and write down

important points. Prepare an analysis plan for this assignment. Do not rush to the

computer without knowing what is required in the assignment.

4. The data for this assignment are in Moodle site for TBS 902 under information for

assignments. Copy this data file to your computer.

5. You can use EXCEL, Minitab or SPSS for calculations.

6. You need to first sort the data according to suburbs and then produce necessary

descriptive statistics and histograms on the annual household incomes for different

suburbs.

7. Use appropriate statistics to describe the location of data, the variability of data

and to compare the variability of data. Comment on the shape of the

distributions.

8. You need to write a business report with headings given in (1) above. You should

include the computer outputs of your calculations and any graphs or charts in your

report.

If you have any questions please see me during consultation hours.

GOOD LUCK

Dr. Kumara Fernando

Lecturer