Assignment: Descriptive Statistics
Visit one of the following newspapers’ websites: USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post. Select an article that uses statistical data related to a current event, your major, your current field, or your future career goal. The chosen article must have a publication date during this quarter.
The article should use one of the following categories of descriptive statistics:
- Measures of Frequency – Counting Rules, Percent, Frequency, Frequency Distributions
- Measures of Central Tendency – Mean, Median, Mode
- Measures of Dispersion or Variation – Range, Variance, Standard Deviation
- Measures of Position – Percentile, Quartiles
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
- Write a summary of the article.
- Explain how the article uses descriptive statistics.
- Explain how the article applies to the real world, your major, your current job, or your future career goal.
- Analyze the reasons why the article chose to use the various types of data shared in the article.
- Format your paper according to the Strayer Writing Standards. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
- Thoroughly wrote a summary of the article.
- Thoroughly explained how the article uses descriptive statistics.
- Thoroughly explained how the article applies to the real world, your major, your current job, or your future career goal.
- Thoroughly analyzed the reasons why the article chose to use the various types of data shared in the article.
- There are no mechanical, grammar spelling, punctuation, or stylistic errors.
Note : Please make it a 3 page paper (instruction say 2-3 but make it 3)
“The chosen article must have a publication date during this quarter.”
Summary of the article
The article presents recent consumer confidence interval report covering the second quarter through April 18th this year. Typically a consumer confidence interval is a measure of consumers’ optimism as well as pessimism to engage in both spending and saving activities. Notably, the consumer confidence index is reported to have risen gradually since January, and the significant increase is stated to occur between April and March. The report indicates that the index rose from 124.2 in March to 129.2 by the 18th of April this year. On the same note, economists have gained interest in the consumer confidence interval since about 70% of the United States economic activity is accounted for by consumer spending.