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XAMINATION
MLB.A. (CBCS) DEGREE
First Semester
(School of International Business) IRS
Logistics and Supply Chain Management i~
BUSINESS STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYTICS o
(Effective from the admitted batch of 2021-2022)
Time : Three hours Maximum : 60 marks
PARTI — (6% 2= 10 marks) 10)
1. Answer any FIVE of the following : i
(a) Define statistics. What are its imitations? ie
(b) What are the requisites of a good measure of
dispersion?
em.
(©) Explain the utility of time series.
ye? (@ Why index numbers are called economic
barometers?
(e) Explain scatter diagram.
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ession coefficients. What: are their
() Define ree '
properties? )
(g) State addition theorem of probability. Give
an example. -
No.of
A : «09
(h) What is Business Analytics? —
PART Il — (5 x 7= 35 marks) t
Answer the following.
2. (a) The mean and standard deviation of
200 items: are found to pe 60 and 20 a
respectively. If at the time of calculation, two
items were wrongly taken as 3 and 67
instead of 13 and 17, find the correct mean
and standard deviation. What is the correct
coefficient of variation? Ye
Pr
Or c
(>) From the following data find the Bowley’s
coefficient of skewness and comment. —
Income Below 200-4
40 .
a on 0 400-600 600-800 800-1000 Above ;
1000 ?
No.of 2 40 80
persons : . > 6
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@) The sales of a company in thousand rupees
for the year 1980 through 1986 are given
below :
Year :
1980 1981 1989 1983 1984 1985 1926
No.of 32
persons : 47 6592 132 390-75
Estimate the sale
7 figure for the year 1927
sing an equation of the form Y =q- b*.
Or
(b) From the followin;
g data construct an index
number
@) with 2000 as base
Gi) by chain base method and comment.
Year : 2000 2001. 2002 2003 2004 2003
Price 50 60 62 65 70 8
(000) :
4. (a) Calculate correlation coefficient for the
following data and comment.
718 89 96 69 59 19 es
125 187 156 112-136-123 SS
Or
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(i) coefficient of correlation betwee ay
xandy
(ii) standard deviation of y- 6.
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has two plants to manufac’
(a) A company Poe :
_ Plant I manufacture’
ators and Plant II manufactures 20%. At
Plant I 85 out of 100 scooters are rated
standard quality or better. At Plant IT only
65 out of 100 scooters are rated standard
quality or better. What is the probability the
scooter come from Plant II if it is known that
the scooter is of standard quality?
Or
(b) 1000 bulbs with a mean life of 120 days age= =
installed in a new factory. Their length of —<—
is normally distributed with
deviation 20 days. ; sien
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than 90 days?
Gi) If it is decided to replace all the bulbs
together what interval should he
allowed between replacement, if no
more than 10% should expire before
SS replacement?
6. (a) 9 students selected at random obtained the
following scores :
Student No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Quantitative 27 64 27 45 50 32 41 47 34
reasoning test
Verbalreasoning 37 54 33 66 42 29 33 49 30
test .
U
Or
(b) From the data given below, explain the steps
to predict sales for a given value of purchases
= using Excel.
Sales : 81 87 98. 111 57 114 41 63 91
4 84
Purchases : 75 79 73 100 74 96 43 6
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(Compulsory)
7. Case study :
The number of arrivals of ships per day at a port
are as given below :
CU ec ee te
arrivals :
Noor OU 63 60 ad G4 34 io 8 a 2 oF
days :
Can we conclude that the number of arrivals
follows a Poisson distribution at 5% level of
significance.
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MBA. DEGREE EXAMINATION
Logistics & Supply Chain Management
First Semester
BUSINESS STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYTICS
(Effective from the admitted batch of 2021-2022)
yim _ 3 hours Max. Marks : 60
PART -I
1. Answer any FIVE questions from the following .
(5 x2= 10)
(a) Skewness
(b) Positive and negative correlation
(c) Auto Regression
(@) Mutually exclusive events
(e) Binomial and normal distribution
() Role of time series analysis in business
forecasting
(g) Applications of chi-square test
(b) Multiplicative law :
PART-II (5 x7 = 35)
Answer ALL the questions.
2, (a) Compute the mean deviation from the median
: distribution of the
and mean for the following
scores of 50 high school students.
F70-180]180-190]190-200
soe [40-T50]I60-160]160-170
[Frequency 6 | 1 | 1 | 9 3
(OR)
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®) cae the quartile deviation and the
coefficient of the deviation for the data given
below:
Income | Legs than | 50-70] 70-90] 90-110
S)} 50
No. of 54 100 | 140 | 300
persons i @
Tncome]110-130 _ |130-50] above 150
(Rs.) days
No. of 230 125 51
persons
3. (a) Write short notes on various components of time
series as trend, seasonal cyclic etc.
(OR)
(b) From the following chain base index number
given prepare the fixed base index number.
Year | 2013] 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017
80 | 110 | 120 | 90 | 140
Index
4, (a) The management of a chain electronic store
would like to develop a model for predicting the
weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) for
individual stores based on the number of
customers who made purchases. A random
sample of 12 stores yields the following results fit
a regression line for using number of customers
: as independent variable.
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907 | 926 718/741
ju 2] 05 8.21) 9 Ay
529 | 460
c
(OR)
02] G12
(&) Find the Karl Person's coefficient of correlation
between the sales (Rs. in lakhs) and advertising
expenditure (Rs. in 000) from the following data (
:
[Sales ‘| 65] 66] 67] 68]69]70]71 72 73]
lAvertisi
— ising] 6g 67| 64| 67/71 | 69/70/68 70 |
780 | HoH
10.8) 6.73
|
872 | 650 | 6¢
9.52] 7
5. (a) Ina binomial experiment with 5 trails what is
the probability of obtaining exactly 3 successes
ifp=1.12.
(OR)
(b) It has been found that 80% of all the tourists
who visit South Korea visit Seoul. 705 of them
visit Bussan and 60% of them visit both. What is
the probability that a tourist will visit at least
one city? Also find the probability that they will
visit neither city.
nt applications of Business
(a) Explain the differe everage business
analytics. How can we 1 " business
eee in Managerial decision making 1» the
organizations?
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(b) A researcher does a one-independent sample z
test and makes the decision to reject null
hypothesis. Another researcher selects a larger
sample from the same population obtains the
same sample mean and makes the decision to
retain the null hypothesis using the same
hypothesis test. Is this possible? Explain.
PART - IIT (1 x15 = 15)
7. CASE STUDY (Compulsory)
Alight bulb industry went for mass production of color
bulbs before a festival. Five bulbs, one of each color,
were packed in each of the boxes; which were to be
sold as a item to the customers. Due to shortage of
time, quality was compromised and it was estimated
that 20% of the bulbs were defected. If the customer
purchased such a box of bulbs. what is the probability
that the box will have?
().. No defective bulb
(i) 2 defective bulbs
Gui
at least one defective bulb
(iv) at most one defective bulb
(v) all the bulbs are defective
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; MBA. DEGREE EXAMINATION
Logistics & Supply Chain Management
First Semester
BUSINESS STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYTICS
(Effective from the admitted batch of 2021-2022)
Max. Marks : 60
Time : 3 hours
PART -
I
1. Answer any FIVE questions from the following -
(6 x2=10)
2.
(a) Skewness
(b) Positive and negative correlation
(©) Auto Regression
(d) Mutually exclusive events
(e) Binomial and normal distribution
() Role of time series analysis in business
forecasting
(g) Applications of chi-square test
(h) Multiplicative law
PART-II
Answer ALL the questions.
(a) Comp
and mean for
ute the mean deviation fro
the following distribution 0!
scores of 50 high school students.
(6x
7 = 35)
m the median
(180-190)
f the
[190-200
140-150
1150-160|160-170}
170-180)
score
Frequency|
4
6
10
10
9
3
(OR)
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&) Caleulate the quartile deviatio
n and the
3.
4 @)
coefficient of the deviation for the data given
below: : a
fncome [Loss than 50-70 | 70-90
(Rs)] 50
\No. of 54 100 140
[persons | | i —,
Tmcome]110-130 130-50] above 150
Rs.) | days
No.of | 230 125 a
ons
!
(@) Write short notes on various components of time
series as trend, seasonal cyclic etc.
(OR)
(b) From the following chain base index number
given prepare the fixed base index number.
| Year [2013] 2014 | 2015 [2016 |2017
[Index] 80 [110 [120 | 90 | 140
The management of a chain electronic store
would like to develop a model for predicting the
weekly sales (in thousands of dollars) for
individual stores based on the number of
ae made purchases. A random
as 4 stores yields the following results fit
©8ression line for using number of customers
as independent variable,
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Custemers | 907
Z a 907 | 926] 713] 741 [780 | 898 |
‘ale r ;
1.2/11.05 8.9 | p | |
ee | 8.21| 9.42] 10.8 16.73 |
= 10} 529] 460] 8 650 | 603 |
ae : 6 F 503
__| 8.73] )2} 6.12] 9 alr lrae|
1.02) 6.12) 9.52]7.53 |7.a5
(OR)
(b) Find x
nd the Karl Person’s coefficient of correlation
(a)
(b)
(a)
between the s in lakh advertising
e sales (Rs. in lakhs) and
X s 7 advertis
expenditure (Rs. in 000) from the following a
Sales / 65] 66|67]68|69|70]71 |72| 73 |
\Avertisi
ertising] 6g] 67| @4|67|71|69|70|68| 70 |
In a binomial experiment with 5 trails what is
the probability of obtaining exactly 3 successes
ifp=1.12.
(OR)
It has been found that 80% of all the tourists
who visit South Korea visit Seoul. 705 of them
visit Bussan and 60% of them visit both. What is
the probability that a tourist will visit at least
one city? Also find the probability that they will
visit neither city.
nt applications of Business
an we leverage business
Explain the differe:
jsion making in the
analytics. How cap
analytics in Managerial dec!
organizations?
(OR) 2.7.0.)
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\ vesoareher does a one-independent. sample
test and makes the decision to reject null
hypothesis. Another researcher selects a larger
sample from the same population obtains the
same sample mean and makes the decision to
retain the null hypothesis using the same
hypothesis test. Is this possible? Explain.
o
PART - II (1 x15 = 15)
_ CASE STUDY (Compulsory)
Alight bulb industry went for mass production of color
bulbs before a festival. Five bulbs, one of each color,
were packed in each of the boxes; which were to be
sold as a item to the customers. Due to shortage of
time, quality was compromised and it was estimated
that 20% of the bulbs were defected. If the customer
purchased such a box ofbulbs. what is the probability
that the box will have?
(i) No defective bulb
(i) 2defective bulbs
(iii) at least one defective bulb
iv) at most one defective bulb
(v) all the bulbs are defective
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