Math153-DB1,DDH Name(s):
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9/05 _______________________________________________
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Project 4:
Minitab14 (10 points) Compare salaries of Orioles and Yankees
Due: on or before Friday, September 30, 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.
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Mean |
Median |
5%Trimmed Mean |
Range |
Interquartile Range |
Standard Deviation |
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Orioles2005 |
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Yankees2005 |
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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.