Math153-DB1,DDH                                  Name(s): _________________________________________

Due:  on or before Friday, September 30, 2005.

 

Oriole and Yankee Baseball Salaries 2005

(see http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/default.aspx)

 

1)  To your dataset add the salaries of the Yankees baseball team for 2005 using the link above.  Change to units of millions of dollars by dividing each number by 1000000 and rounding to one decimal place.  For example, 15,714,286 becomes 15.7.  You may put the Yankees data in the second column.

 

2)  Find the following descriptive statistics.

The descriptive statistics will appear in the session window for each group (Orioles and Yankees) separately.  Complete the table below.

 

Mean

Median

5%Trimmed Mean

Range

Interquartile Range

Standard Deviation

Orioles2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yankees2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

3)   Using Minitab, draw two dotplots. Graph, Dotplot, Multiple y’s Simple

The two dotplots will be printed on the same graph.

 

4)   Using Minitab, draw two boxplots. Graph, Boxplot, Multiple y’s Simple

The two boxplots will be printed on the same graph.

 

5)  Attach print-outs of the dotplots and boxplots, Session window, Data worksheet window.  Put your name in the window before printing.

 

6)   You are given two minutes on a TV sports channel to compare the Orioles salaries with the Yankee salaries.  What would you say?

Add any additional analyses, which would be helpful.

Credit will be given for the quality (and quantity) of information presented.