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Exercise 1

The following contingency table refers to a sample of 380 customers of a supermarket,

classified according to the most utilised ancillary service and the age bracket
(young/adult/elderly):

Construct an adequate side-by-side bar chart that highlights a potential dependence between
the variables involved. What information can you derive?

Exercise 2
Doctors are interested in the possible relationship between the dosage of a medicine and the
time required for a patient’s recovery. The following table shows, for a sample of 10 patients,
dosage levels (in grams) and recovery times (in hours). These patients have similar
characteristics except for medicine dosages. Describe the data graphically with a scatter plot.

Exercise 3
A fast-food chain has selected a sample of 150 transactions in order to monitor service-quality
of a restaurant and collected information about wait time (in minutes) before having a meal:
1. What do you mean by frequencies distribution?
2. Calculate the median for wait time.
3. Calculate the arithmetic mean for wait time.
4. BONUS: Calculate the standard deviation for wait time.

Exercise 4
A tour operator extracts from its database a sample of people who have bought an organized
holiday for a certain destination in 2011. For the clients extracted, gender and money spent (in
euro) for extra excursions (not included in the package) have been revealed:

Establish, through the use of the appropriate indexes, whether the money spent for excursions
is more variable for male or for female.

Exercise 5
A company has selected a sample of 130 customers in order to define the next advertising
campaign and for targeting it on the basis of the age. The following information about the
number of purchased items and the age classes (young/adult/senior) has been collected:

1. Could you say that every age class buys a different number of items? Explain your answer by
calculating the conditional frequencies and building an adequate graph.
2. What is the percentage of customers being adult and having bought at least 3 items? What is the
percentage of young among customers who have bought 4 items?
Exercise 6
A few months after the opening of the pilot store, TIR has processed the data on the customers
who have signed up for the store membership card. The following table shows the frequency
distribution of the variable "number of purchases during the first three months of being a
cardmember":

1. Write the expression of the cumulative distribution function of "No. of purchases" and draw
its graph.
2. BONUS: Compute the five summary numbers for the variable "No. of purchases."