Problem One Gary Seitz is director of procurement for the Forest Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois. His medical center recently purchased more than 300 new side tables for the patient rooms from Quick-and-Cheap Furniture. His team, however, is not happy with the paint quality of these tables. They feel the firm providing the tables was rushed to get the order out and did not […]

This assignment has two cases. The first case is on expansion strategy. Managers constantly have to make decisions under uncertainty. This assignment gives students an opportunity to use the mean and standard deviation of probability distributions to make a decision on expansion strategy. The second case is on determining at which point a manager should re-order a printer so he or she doesn’t run out-of-stock. […]

Work with the provided Excel database. This database has the following columns: LotCode: A unique code that identifies the parking lot slot capacity: A number with the respective parking lot capacity LotOccupancy: A number with the current number of cars in the parking lot TimeStamp: A day/time combination indicating the moment when occupancy was measured Day: The day of the week corresponding to the TimeStamp […]

YX 0.07 0.09 0.08 0.16 0.17 0.21 0.49 0.58 0.53 1.22 1.15 1.07 2.84 2.57 3.1 9 9 9 7 7 7 5 5 5 3 3 3 1 1 1 1. A researcher study the relationship between two variables X and Y. The data is shown below Y X 5.5 1 5.1 1 6.9 2 5.8 2 6.2 3 6.1 3 6.9 4 5.4 […]

Minitab 18:https://support.minitab.com/en-us/minitab/18/help-and-how-to/graphs/how-to/general-graphoptions/groups-and-multiple-graphs/paneling-and-multiple-graphs/#create-a-separate-panel-or-aseparate-graph-for-each-group-by-variables-tab Minitab Express: https://support.minitab.com/en-us/minitab-express/1/help-and-how-to/graphs/histogram/createthe-graph/single-y-variable-with-groups/ STAT100 Fall 2019 Minitab Assignment 2: Exploratory Data Analysis 2 You need to submit a Word document or PDF for this assignment. Make sure you do the following: 1. Include your name in the document in the upper left-hand corner. Under your name, write STAT 100 and your section number. 2. Write MINITAB Assignment 2 centered on the page. 3. […]

1. Nominal-numbers serve as descriptors (e.g., SSN, numbers assigned to marathon runners, firstnames, colors of jerseys) How to describe statistically: Percentages, frequencies Mode (not average-mean) Transformations: (what changes can be made to the data without losing its qualities?) one-to-one transformations (renaming) 2. Ordinal-numbers denote relative ranking (e.g., sales rankings, occupation level in a hierarchy, scale-strongly agree to strongly disagree) Differences in numbers have no meaning […]

This assignment has two cases. The first case is on expansion strategy. Managers constantly have to make decisions under uncertainty. This assignment gives students an opportunity to use the mean and standard deviation of probability distributions to make a decision on expansion strategy. The second case is on determining at which point a manager should re-order a printer so he or she doesn’t run out-of-stock. […]

1. Dogs have been domesticated for about 14,000 years. In that time, have they been able to develop an understanding of human gestures such as pointing or glancing. How about similar nonhuman cues? Researchers Udell, Giglio, and Wynne tested a small number of dogs in order to answer these questions. To test this, the researchers positioned the dogs about 2.5 meters from the experimenter. On […]

Sydney is an HR rep who sits in on the promotion decisions for the company. She is concerned because it seems that people are getting salary hikes because their managers like them, not because they deserve it. She wants to know if there is a significant relationship between PercentSalaryHike and Years with Current Manager. What is the correlation between PercentSalaryHike and Years with Current Manager […]

Prepare a managerial report for your boss. Use the following questions for guidelines and directions on what to include in the report: What is the type of data (Quantitative or Qualitative) for each of the columns (variables) in the dataset? If quantitative, is the data discrete or continuous? Neatly summarize your response in a table for all the columns (variables). Using Excel®, find the mean, […]