*Instructor’s Solutions Manual for Business Statistics, 3rd Edition by Robert A. Donnelly – Complete Chapter Solutions (Ch 1-18)

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Chapterg1:gAngIntroductiongtogBusinessgStatistics… ..................................................................... 1-1
Chapterg2:gDisplayinggDescriptivegStatistics…............................................................................. 2-1
Chapterg3:gCalculatinggDescriptivegStatistics… ............................................................................ 3-1
Chapterg4:gIntroductiongtogProbabilities… ....................................................................................4-1
Chapterg5:gDiscretegProbabilitygDistributions… .......................................................................... 5-1
Chapterg6:gContinuousgProbabilitygDistributions… ......................................................................6-1
Chapterg7:gSamplinggandgSamplinggDistributions… ..................................................................... 7-1
Chapterg8:gConfidencegIntervals… ............................................................................................... 8-1
Chapterg9:gHypothesisgTestinggforgagSinglegPopulation… ........................................................... 9-1
Chapterg10:gHypothesisgTestsgComparinggTwogPopulations… ................................................... 10-1
Chapterg11:gAnalysisgofgVarianceg(ANOVA)gProcedures…....................................................... 11-1
Chapterg12:gChi-SquaregTests… ................................................................................................. 12-1
Chapterg13:gHypothesisgTestsgforgthegPopulationgVariance… ..................................................... 13-1
Chapterg14:gCorrelationgandgSimplegLineargRegression….......................................................... 14-1
Chapterg15:gMultiplegRegressiongandgModelgBuilding… ........................................................... 15-1
Chapterg16:gForecasting .............................................................................................................. 16-1
Chapterg17:gDecisiongAnalysis… ............................................................................................... 17-1
Chapterg18:gNonparametricgStatistics… ..................................................................................... 18-1

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An Introduction to Business Statistics
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1.1 Quantitative/Interval.gThegdifferencesgbetweengaveragegmonthlygtemperaturesgareg
meaningful,gbutgtheregisgnogtruegzerogpoint,gi.e.,gabsencegofgtemperature.

1.2 Quantitative/Ratio.gThegdifferencesgbetweengaveragegmonthlygrainfallsgaregmeaningful,gandgt
heregisgagtruegzerogpoint,gbecausegtheregmaygbegagmonthgwithoutganygrainfalls.

1.3 Qualitative/Ordinal.gYougcangrankgeducationglevel,gbutgthegdifferencesgbetweengdifferentg
educationalglevelsgcannotgbegmeasured.

1.4 Qualitative/Nominal.gThegmaritalgstatusgisgjustgaglabelgwithoutgagmeaningfulgdifference,gorgr
anking.

1.5 Quantitative/Ratio.gThegdifferencesgbetweengagesgofgrespondentsgaregmeaningfulgandgthere
isgagtruegzerogpoint:gangagegofgthegrespondentsgthatgequalsgzerogrepresentsgthegabsencegofgage.

1.6 Qualitative/Nominal.gTheggendersgaregmerelyglabelsgwithgnogrankinggorgmeaningfulg
difference.

1.7 Quantitative/Interval.gThegdifferencesgbetweengbirthgyearsgaregmeaningful,gbutgtheregisgnogtruegz
erogpointgwithgcalendargyears.

1.8 Qualitative/gNominal.gThegpoliticalgaffiliationsgaregmerelyglabelsgwithgnogrankinggorg
meaningfulgdifference.

1.9 Qualitative/gNominal.gThegracesgofgthegrespondentsgaregmerelyglabelsgwithgnogrankinggorg
meaningfulgdifference.

1.10 Qualitative/gOrdinal.gYougcangrankgthegperformancegrating,gbutgthegdifferencesgbetweeng
differentgperformancegratingsgcannotgbegmeasured.

1.11 Qualitative/gNominal.gTheguniformgnumbersgofgeachgmembergofgthegschool’sgsportgteamgaregl
abelsgwithgnogrankinggorgmeaningfulgdifference.

1.12 Qualitative/ordinal.gThegdifferencesgingthegdatagvaluesgbetweengclassgranksgaregnotg
meaningful.

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1.13 Quantitative/Ratio.gThegdifferencesgbetweengfinalgexamgscoresgforgyourgstatisticsgclass
aregmeaningful,gandgtheregisgagtruegzerogpointgbecausegagstudentgwhogdidgnotgtakegthegexamgwo
uldghavegagscoregofgzero.

1.14 Qualitative/Nominal.gThegstategingwhichgthegrespondentsgingagsurveygresidegisgaglabelgandgitgi
sgmeaninglessgtogtalkgaboutgthegratinggofgthisgvalue.

1.15 Quantitative/Interval.g ThegdifferencesgbetweengSATgscoresgforggraduatingghighgschoolgstude
ntsgaregmeaningful,gbutgtheregisgnogtruegzerogpointgbecausegagstudentgwithgangSATgscoregequalgt
ogzerogdoesgnotgindicategthegabsencegofgagscore.

1.16 Qualitative/Ordinal.gYougcangrankgmoviegratings,gbutgthegdifferencesgbetweeng
differentgratingsgcannotgbegmeasured.

1.17 Qualitative/ordinal.gThegdifferencesgingthegdatagvaluesgbetweengratingsgaregnotgmeaningful.

1.18 Qualitative/ordinal.gThegdifferencesgingthegdatagvaluesgbetweengratingsgaregnotgmeaningful.

1.19 Cross-sectional

1.20 Timegseries

1.21 Timegseries:gMengweeklygearningsgovergthegfivegyears.gTi
megseries:gWomengweeklygearningsgovergthegfivegyears.

1.22 Cross-sectionalgdata:gMengandgwomengworkersgweeklygearningsgforganygonegparticulargyear.

1.23 Cross-sectional:gThegnumbergofg8x10,g11x14gandg13x19gprintsgsoldgovergagparticulargyear.

1.24 Timegseries:gthegnumbergofg8x10gprintsgsoldgovergthegfourgyears.gT
imegseries:gthegnumbergofg11x14gprintsgsoldgovergthegfourgyears.gTi
megseries:gthegnumbergofg13x19gprintsgsoldgovergthegfourgyears.

1.25 Descriptivegstatistics,gbecausegitgidentifiesgagsamplegmean.

1.26 Inferentialgstatistics,gbecausegthegstatementsgaboutgcomparinggthegaveragegcostsgofgaghotelgr
oomgingtwogstatesgwasgbasedgongresultsgfromgsamplesgtakengfromgtwogpopulations.