Class – BBA – II

Subject –Statistical Techniques

Assignment Number – 3

Submission Date – 23rd Nov 2022

Q.1) Write short notes on

a) Scatter Diagram b) Types of correlation

c) Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient d) Rank Correlation coefficient

e) Interpretation of r = +1, r= -1 , r = 0

Q. 2) Find the value of the correlation coefficient from the following table:

Age 43 21 25 42 57 59

Glucose Level 99 65 79 75 87 81

( r = 0.529809 )

Q. 3) Given the following pairs of values:

Capital Employed (Rs. In Crore)

1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 11 12

Profit (Rs. In Lakhs)

3 5 4 7 9 8 10 11 12 14

(a)Draw a scatter diagram

(b)Do you think that there is any correlation between profits and capital employed? Is it positive or negative?
Is it high or low?

( r = 0.965235 , High Correlation )

Q. 4) From following information find the correlation coefficient between advertisement expenses and sales
volume using Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation method.

Advertisement Exp. (Rs. In Lakhs) 11 13 14 16 16 15 15 14 13 13

Sales Volume (Rs. In Lakhs) 50 50 55 60 65 65 65 60 60 50

( r = 0.786567 )

Q. 5) Coefficient of correlation between X and Y is 0.3. Their covariance is 9. The variance of X is 16. Find the
standard devotion of Y series.

( Ans – 7.5 )
Q. 6) Find out spearman’s coefficient of correlation between the two kinds of assessment of graduate students’
performance in a college.

Name of students A B C D E F G H I

Internal Exam 51 68 73 46 50 65 47 38 60

External Exam 49 72 74 44 58 66 50 30 35

( Ans - 0.7833 )

Q. 7) Ten competitors in a beauty contest are ranked by three judges in the following order:

1st Judge 1 6 5 10 3 2 4 9 7 8

2nd Judge 3 5 8 4 7 10 2 1 6 9

3rd Judge 6 4 9 8 1 2 3 10 5 7

( Ans - 1st Judge and 2nd Judge: R = -0.2121 2nd Judge and 3rd Judge: R = -0.297

1st Judge and 3rd Judge: = 0.6364 )

Q. 8) From the following data, compute the rank correlation.

X 82 68 75 61 68 73 85 68

Y 81 71 71 68 62 69 80 70

( Ans – 0.75 )

Q.9 ) calculate a Spearman rank-order correlation on data without any ties we will use the following data:

Marks

English 56 75 45 71 62 64 58 80 76 61

Maths 66 70 40 60 65 56 59 77 67 63

( Ans – 0.67 )

Q.10) Find the Spearman’s correlation coefficient between 𝑥 and 𝑦.

𝑥 4 7 8 5 8 1

𝑦 7 6 6 4 6 1
( Ans - 0.3857)