Question: Integrative Application Exercise
This text introduced you to the basics of descriptive statistics. Many of the business application problems, advanced business application problems, and cases will give you practice in performing descriptive statistical analysis. However, too often you are told which procedure you should use, or you can surmise which to use by the location of the exercise. It is important that you learn to identify the appropriate procedure on your own in order to solve problems for test purposes. But more important, this ability is essential throughout your career when you are required to select procedures for the tasks you will undertake. The following exercises will provide you with identification practice.
Excel tutorials As an intern for Intel Corporation, suppose you have been asked to help the vice president prepare a newsletter to the shareholders. You have been given access to the data in a file called Intel that contains Intel Corporation financial data for the years 1987 through 1996. Go to the Internet or to Intel's annual report and update the file to include the same variables for the years 1997 to the present. Then use graphs to effectively present the data in a format that would be usable for the vice president's newsletter. Write a short article that discusses the information shown in your graphs.