STA1501 SOLUTIONS 2024 for Statistics for Management and Economics TextBook
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, A GUIDE TO STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
Problem Objectives
Analyze Relationship Analyze Relationship
Describe a Compare Two Compare Two or between Two among Two or More
Population Populations More Populations Variables Variables
Histogram Equal-variances t-test and estimator One-way analysis of variance Scatter diagram Multiple regression
Section 3.1 of the difference between two Section 14.1 Section 3.3 Chapter 17
Ogive means: independent samples LSD multiple comparison Covariance
Section 3.1 Section 13.1 method Section 4.4
Stem-and-leaf Unequal-variances t-test and Section 14.2 Coefficient of correlation
Section 3.1 estimator of the difference between Tukey’s multiple comparison Section 4.4
two means: independent samples method
Line chart Section 13.1 Coefficient of determination
Section 3.2 Section 14.2 Section 4.4
t-test and estimator of mean Two-way analysis of variance
Mean, median, and mode difference Least squares line
Section 4.1 Section 14.4 Section 4.4
Section 13.3
Range, variance, and Two-factor analysis of variance Simple linear regression and
F-test and estimator of ratio of two Section 14.5
standard deviation variances correlation
Section
ion 4.2 Chapter 16
Interval
Section 13.4
Percentiles and quartiles
Section 4.3
Box plot
Section 4.3
t-test and estimator of a mean
Section 12.1
Chi-squared test and
estimator of a variance
Section 12.2
Frequency distribution z-test and estimator of the Chi-squared test of a Chi-squared test of a contingency Not covered
Section 2.2 difference between two proportions contingency table table
DATA T YPES
Bar chart Section 13.5 Section 15.2 Section 15.2
Section 2.2 Chi-squared test of a contingency
Pie chart table
Section 2.2 Section 15.2
z-test and estimator
of a proportion
Nominal
Section 12.3
Chi-squared goodness-of-
fit test
Section 15.1
Median Not covered
Section 4.1
Percentiles and quartiles
Section 4.3
Box plot
Ordinal
Section 4.3
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APPLICATION SECTIONS
Section 4.5 (Optional) Application in Professional Sports Management: Determinants of the Number
of Wins in a Baseball Season (illustrating an application of the least squares method and
correlation) 144
Section 4.6 (Optional) Application in Finance: Market Model (illustrating using a least squares lines and
coefficient of determination to estimate a stock’s market-related risk and its firm-specific risk) 147
Section 7.3 (Optional) Application in Finance: Portfolio Diversification and Asset Allocation (illustrating
the laws of expected value and variance and covariance) 237
Section 12.4 (Optional) Application in Marketing: Market Segmentation (using inference about a proportion
to estimate the size of a market segment) 435
Section 14.6 (Optional) Application in Operations Management: Finding and Reducing Variation (using
analysis of variance to actively experiment to find sources of variation) 578
APPLICATION SUBSECTION
Section 6.4 (Optional) Application in Medicine and Medical Insurance: Medical Screening (using Bayes’s
Law to calculate probabilities after a screening test) 199
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