Statistics, Statistical Modelling and Data Analytics (DA-304T)

VI Sem. (AIML-III), Assignment Sheet- I

Max. Marks- 40 Jan.-Jul., 2024

Q. 1 The U.S. Department of Energy conducts weekly surveys of approximately 900

gasoline stations to determine the average price per gallon of regular gasoline. On January
11, 2010, the average price was $2.75 per gallon.
(i) Identify the population and the sample in the above.
(ii) What does the sample data set consist of? (2) (CO1)

Q. 2 Decide whether the numerical value describes a population parameter or a sample

statistic. Explain your reasoning.
(i) A survey of 200 college career centers reported that the average starting salary for
petroleum engineering majors is $83,121.
(ii) The 2182 students who accepted admission offers to Northwestern University in
2009 have an average SAT score of 1442.
(iii) In a random check of a sample of retail stores, the Food and Drug Administration
found that 34% of the stores were not storing fish at the proper temperature. (2) (CO1)

Q. 3 A survey conducted among 1017 men and women by Opinion Research Corporation
International found that 76% of women and 60% of men had a physical examination
within the previous year.
(i) Identify the descriptive aspect of the survey.
(ii) What inferences could be drawn from this survey? (2) (CO1)

Q. 4 What are qualitative and quantitative types of data? What are nominal, ordinal,
interval and ratio levels of measurement of data? (2) (CO1)

Q. 5 Explain the three key elements of a well-designed experiment, i.e. - control, ran-
domization, and replication. What is a confounding variable? (2) (CO1)

Q. 6 Explain different types of sampling techniques such as stratified, cluster, systematic

and convenience sampling, Explain some key terms related to sampling techniques - (i)
census, (ii) sampling, (iii) sampling error, (iv) random sample. (2) (CO1)

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Q. 7 How can we construct a Frequency Distribution table from a Data Set? Give steps.
The following sample data set lists the prices (in dollars) of 30 portable global positioning
system (GPS) navigators. Construct a frequency distribution that has seven classes.
90 130 400 200 350 70 325 250 150 250
275 270 150 130 59 200 160 450 300 130
220 100 200 400 200 250 95 180 170 150
Define midpoint, relative frequency and cumulative frequency of a class in this case.
(2) (CO1)

Q. 8 Draw a frequency histogram and Ogive (Cumulative Frequency Graph) for the fre-
quency distribution in case of Q. 7. (2) (CO1)

Q. 9 The following are the numbers of text messages sent by the cellular phone users on
one floor of a shop. Display the data in a stem-and-leaf plot. What can you conclude?
155 159 144 129 105 145 126 116 130 114 122 112 112 142
126 118 118 108 122 121 109 140 126 119 113 117 118 109
109 119 139 139 122 78 133 126 123 145 121 134 124 119
132 133 124 129 112 126 148 147 (2) (CO1)

Q. 10 What are paired data sets? The British statistician Ronald Fisher introduced a
famous data set called Fisher’s Iris data set. This data set describes various physical
characteristics such as petal length and petal width (in millimeters), for three species of
iris. Draw a scatter plot for this paired Iris data set of two quantitative variables, i.e. petal
length and width. (2) (CO1)

Q. 11 A student is taking a class in which his grade is determined from five sources: 50%
from unit test, 15% from midterm, 20% from final exam, 10% from computer lab work,
and 5% from homework. His scores are 86 (unit test), 96 (midterm), 82 (final exam), 98
(computer lab), and 100 (homework). What is the weighted mean of his scores? If the
minimum average for an A is 90, did he get an A grade?
Find the mean and sample standard deviation of frequency distribution obtained in Q. 7.
(2) (CO1)

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Q. 12 The number of nuclear power plants in the top 15 nuclear power-producing coun-
tries in the world are listed. Find the first, second, and third quartiles of the data set.

7 18 11 6 59 17 18 54 104 20 31 8 10 15 19

Draw a box-and-whisker plot that represents the data set given above. Which is the pos-
sible Outlier? (2) (CO1)

Q. 13 The mean speed of vehicles along a stretch of highway is 56 miles per hour with a
standard deviation of 4 miles per hour. The measured speeds of three cars traveling along
this stretch of highway are 62 miles per hour, 47 miles per hour, and 56 miles per hour.
Find the z-score that corresponds to each speed. What can you conclude? (2) (CO1)

Q. 14 What is the probability that the price of a GPS navigator lies between 115-170
dollars in problem of Q. 7? Construct a discrete probability distribution table for the
same. (2) (CO1)

Q. 15 Microfracture knee surgery has a 75% chance of success on patients with degenera-
tive knees. The surgery is performed on three patients. Find the probability of the surgery
being successful on exactly two patients. Find the mean and variance. (2) (CO1)

Q. 16 A survey indicates that for each trip to the supermarket, a shopper spends an average
of 45 minutes with a standard deviation of 12 minutes in the store.The lengths of time
spent in the store are normally distributed and are represented by the variable x. A shopper
enters the store. (a) Find the probability that the shopper will be in the store for each
interval of time listed below. (b) Interpret your answer if 200 shoppers enter the store.
How many shoppers would you expect to be in the store for each interval of time listed
below?
i). Between 24 and 54 minutes, ii). More than 39 minutes. (2) (CO1)

Q. 17 Suppose we write the population values {1, 3, 5, 7} on slips of paper and put them
in a box. Then we randomly choose two slips of paper, with replacement. List all possible
samples of size n = 2 and calculate the mean of each. These means form the sampling
distribution of the sample means (which is a sample statistic in this case). Find the mean,
variance, and standard deviation (also known as the standard error of the mean) of the
sample means. Compare your results with the mean µ = 4, variance σ 2 = 5 and standard

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deviation σ = 5 = 2.236 of the population. (2) (CO1)

Q. 18 A social networking website allows its users to add friends, send messages, and
update their personal profiles. The following represents a random sample of the number
of friends for 40 users of the website. Find a point estimate of the population mean.
140 105 130 97 80 165 232 110 214 201 122 98 65 88 154 133 121 82 130 211
153 114 58 77 51 247 236 109 126 132 125 149 122 74 59 218 192 90 117 105
Assuming confidence level of 1.96, find the margin of error and interval estimate (Confi-
dence interval). (2) (CO1)

Q. 19 Explain the significance of Normal, Student’s-t, Chi-square, Binomial and Poisson

distributions in context of sampling and population distributions. State their properties.
Also, discuss the Chi-square test. (2) (CO1)

Q. 20 (a) For the each claim below, state null hypothesis and alternate hypothesis in words
and in symbols by formulating the hypothesis tests as (i) a two-tailed test, (ii) left-tailed
test, and (iii) right-tailed test, respectively. Sketch a normal sampling distribution and
shade the area for the P-value.
i. A school publicizes that the proportion of its students who are involved in at least
one extracurricular activity is 61%.
ii. A car dealership announces that the mean time for an oil change is less than 15
minutes.
iii. A company advertises that the mean life of its furnaces is more than 18 years.
(b) The P-value for a hypothesis test is P = 0.0237. What is your decision if the level
of significance is (i) α = 0.05 and (ii) α = 0.01 ? Under what circumstance a Type-I or
Type-II error will be made for both values of α? (2) (CO1)