DSC2008 Tutorial 1 answered
DSC 2008 Business Analytics—Data and Decisions Tutorial 1
This first tutorial is longer than usual, because it covers 2 weeks of lecture.
Since there are frequently no definitive answers to some parts of tutorial questions, please only take these files as containing suggested solutions. Some of you might well have different and better insights. In particular, your tutor may have different approaches to some questions.
Just as not all decisions in real life are correct, not all analytics have the last say. Indeed, please take all analyses as subjective, and don’t shy away from disagreeing with the instructor or the text. There will also be occasions when the instructor disagrees with the text. In the exams, there were times when opposite arguments earned equal marks, so long as cogently argued.
Please regard the above proviso as applicable for all future solution sketches. This is the university after all.
(1) The data shown below contains family incomes (in millions of wons) for a set of 50 families; sampled in 1980 and 1990. Assume that these families are good representatives of the entire Korea.
1980
1990
1980
1990
1980
1990
58
54
33
29
73
69
6
2
14
10
26
22
59
55
48
44
64
70
71
57
20
16
59
55
30
26
24
20
11
7
38
34
82
78
70
66
36
32
95
97
31
27
33
29
12
8
92
88
72
68
93
89
115
111
100
96
100
102
62
58
1
0
51
47
23
19
27
23
22
18
34
30
22
47
50
75
36
61
141
166
124
149
125
150
72
97
113
138
121
146
165
190
118
143
88
113
79
104
96
121
(a) Find the mean, median, standard deviation, first and third quartiles, and the 95th percentile for family incomes in both years.
For 1980: mean: 62.7, median: 59, sd: 39.7, 1st quartile: 29.25, 3rd quartile: 93.5, 95th percentile: 132.2
For 1990: mean: 67.12, median: 57.5, sd: 48.09, 1st quartile: 57.5, 3rd quartile: 98.25, 95th percentile: 157.2
(b) It seems that the country was better off in 1990 than in 1980, because the average income increased. Do you agree?
This is not necessarily true. While the
This first tutorial is longer than usual, because it covers 2 weeks of lecture.
Since there are frequently no definitive answers to some parts of tutorial questions, please only take these files as containing suggested solutions. Some of you might well have different and better insights. In particular, your tutor may have different approaches to some questions.
Just as not all decisions in real life are correct, not all analytics have the last say. Indeed, please take all analyses as subjective, and don’t shy away from disagreeing with the instructor or the text. There will also be occasions when the instructor disagrees with the text. In the exams, there were times when opposite arguments earned equal marks, so long as cogently argued.
Please regard the above proviso as applicable for all future solution sketches. This is the university after all.
(1) The data shown below contains family incomes (in millions of wons) for a set of 50 families; sampled in 1980 and 1990. Assume that these families are good representatives of the entire Korea.
1980
1990
1980
1990
1980
1990
58
54
33
29
73
69
6
2
14
10
26
22
59
55
48
44
64
70
71
57
20
16
59
55
30
26
24
20
11
7
38
34
82
78
70
66
36
32
95
97
31
27
33
29
12
8
92
88
72
68
93
89
115
111
100
96
100
102
62
58
1
0
51
47
23
19
27
23
22
18
34
30
22
47
50
75
36
61
141
166
124
149
125
150
72
97
113
138
121
146
165
190
118
143
88
113
79
104
96
121
(a) Find the mean, median, standard deviation, first and third quartiles, and the 95th percentile for family incomes in both years.
For 1980: mean: 62.7, median: 59, sd: 39.7, 1st quartile: 29.25, 3rd quartile: 93.5, 95th percentile: 132.2
For 1990: mean: 67.12, median: 57.5, sd: 48.09, 1st quartile: 57.5, 3rd quartile: 98.25, 95th percentile: 157.2
(b) It seems that the country was better off in 1990 than in 1980, because the average income increased. Do you agree?
This is not necessarily true. While the