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Examples of Descriptive Statistics. Roger Ebert Movie Ratings. Rating Scale (Ordinal): 0*, 0.5*,…,3.5*,4* 5501 Films (rogerebert.com, circa 3/2006). Note: Median (and Modal) Category is 3.0, LQ is 2.0, UQ is 3.5. Profit Margins of Businesses. Net Profits/Losses (%) for department Stores - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Examples of Descriptive Statistics
Roger Ebert Movie Ratings
• Rating Scale (Ordinal): 0*, 0.5*,…,3.5*,4*• 5501 Films (rogerebert.com, circa 3/2006)
Rating Frequency Relative Freq Cumulative Freq
0.0 56 1.02% 1.02%
0.5 76 1.39% 2.41%
1.0 284 5.18% 7.58%
1.5 309 5.63% 13.22%
2.0 907 16.53% 29.75%
2.5 568 10.35% 40.10%
3.0 1684 30.70% 70.80%
3.5 840 15.31% 86.11%
4.0 762 13.89% 100.00%
Ebert Movie Ratings
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25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0
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Note: Median (and Modal) Category is 3.0, LQ is 2.0, UQ is 3.5
Profit Margins of Businesses• Net Profits/Losses (%) for department Stores• 351 Firms (1925): Source: Harvard BBR
Retail Earnings
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-11 -9 -7 -5 -3 -1 1 3 5 7 9 11
Profits/Loss (%)
Fre
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ency
Mean 0.277407
SD 3.846284
IQR 5.065
Percentile
10 -4.69
25 -2.125
50 0.36
75 2.94
90 5
%<mean-2s 2.849003
% in (m-2s,m-s) 13.10541
% in (m-s,m) 31.90883
% in (m,m+s) 37.32194
% in (m+s,m+2s) 13.39031
%>mean+2s 1.424501
Total % 100
Philadelphia Monthly Rainfall 1825-1869 (1/100")
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Example - Philadelphia Rainfall
340341339 :Amounts Ordered
68.367540
198547198547
)Population as (Treating Months 540
)271()270(
540
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Note: The mean is higher than median as a few very large amounts were observed.
Example - Philadelphia Rainfall (Population)
)9.750,0(2.3837.3672
)3.559,1.176(6.1917.367
6.1918.36708
8.36708540
19822752
19822752)(
25.23575.232468 :Range Quartile-Inter
468 :Percentile75
232.75 :Percentile25
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Note: 383 (71%) Months lie within 1 of and 518 (96%) within 2