STA3215CBE Section 01CBE Inferential Statistics and Analytics (11
Weeks) - CBE Online Course - 2023 Spring Quarter
Deliverable 1 - Descriptive
Statistics
Competency
Describe the data using the measures of central tendency and measures
of variability.
Instructions
Scenario (information repeated for deliverable 01, 03, and 04)
A major client of your company is interested in the salary
distributions of jobs in the state of Minnesota that range from $30,000 to
$200,000 per year. As a Business Analyst, your boss asks you to research and
analyze the salary distributions. You are given a spreadsheet that contains the
following information:
·
A listing of the jobs by title
·
The salary (in dollars) for each job
The client needs the preliminary findings by the end of the day. Your
boss asks you to first compute some basic statistics and then analyze the
results in the four questions given in the Excel spreadsheet.
Background information on the Data
The data set in the spreadsheet consists of 364 records that you will
be analyzing from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data set contains a
listing of several jobs titles with yearly salaries ranging from approximately
$30,000 to $200,000 for the state of Minnesota.
What to Submit
Your boss wants you to submit the spreadsheet with the completed
calculations, answers, and analysis.
