Assignment on Statistics and Research Methods

Statistics and research methods
Statistics and Research Methods for Business Decision Making
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Statistics and research methods
Graphical descriptive
Graph of rate of inflation from 1995 to 2015
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Graph of Rate of inflation (%) from 1995 to
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The figure 1 above is a line graph showing the trend of rate of inflation from
1995 to 2015. As can be observed, the rate has not shown a constant trend
since the year 1995. It has been erratic; having highs and lows after about
every 3 years. The highest rate of inflation was experienced in the year
2001 having a rate of 5.9% while the lowest rate of inflation was
experienced in the year 1998 having a rate of 0.3%.
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Statistics and research methods
Graph of ordinaries index from 1995 to 2015
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Graph of All-Ordinaries index from 1995 to
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From the line graph above it can be observed that all-ordinaries index has
been having a general increase since the year 1995 to 2015. However there
was a small hitch between 2007 and 2009 where the index dropped
significantly from 6337.3 in 2007 to 4127.6 in the year 2009.
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