Assignment:
The purpose of assignment is to provide students an opportunity to gain an understanding on how to compute and interpret descriptive statistics and compare results.
Steps
Scenario: You are employed as a statistician for a company that makes household products, which are sold by part-time salespeople who work during their spare time. The company has four salespeople employed in a small town. Let us denote these salespeople by A, B, C, and D. The sales records (in dollars) for the past 6 weeks for these four salespeople are shown in the table below.
Week A B C D
1 1774 2205 1330 1402
2 1808 1507 1295 1665
3 1890 2352 1502 1530
4 1932 1939 1104 1826
5 1855 2052 1189 1703
6 1726 1630 1441 1498
Your supervisor has asked you to prepare a brief report comparing the sales volumes and the consistency of sales of these four salespeople.
Use the mean sales for each salesperson to compare the sales volumes.
Choose an appropriate statistical measure to compare the consistency of sales.
Make the calculations on the Microsoft® Excel® file, "Measuring Salespeople Performance Template," and write a report of 450 words comparing the sales volumes and the consistency of sales of these four salespeople.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.