Statistics for Managerial Decisions with solved assignments and graphs

STATISTICS FOR
MANAGERIAL
DECISIONS
STUDENT ID:
[Pick the date]

Question 1
(a) The stocks prices (opening quarterly) and stem & the requisite stem & leaf plot ia as
shown below.
January April July October
2009 2.63 2.53 2.52 2.58
2010 2.93 3.48 3.61 3.43
2011 3.41 2.91 2.91 2.85
2012 2.49 3.00 3.06 3.89
2013 3.96 4.42 4.90 5.70
2014 5.31 4.81 5.40 5.63
2015 6.91 9.42 7.30 7.30
2016 7.40 7.52 8.41 8.48
2017 8.59 9.39 10.07 9.76
2018 10.89 12.47 14.18 15.91
January April July October
2009 2.72 2.55 2.35 2.63
2010 2.76 2.54 2.57 2.28
2011 2.33 2.33 2.13 1.99
2012 1.86 1.75 1.52 1.83
2013 1.99 2.11 2.89 3.22
2014 3.59 3.98 4.43 4.65
2015 5.85 6.42 6.09 6.47
2016 8.36 8.93 9.65 9.51
2017 8.19 8.91 10.89 11.72
2018 12.83 12.28 13.75 13.71
ResMedInc
Fisher andPaykel Healthcare
(b) The requisite histogram for RMD stock prices and the frequency polygon for FPH stock
is highlighted below.
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(c) The objective was to use a bar chart to depict the market capitalisation of six healthcare
related firm listed on ASX with a minimum market capitalisation of AUD 100 million.
Six such companies have been identified and the corresponding bar graph indicating
market capitalisation on a given date is indicated below.
(d) The objective is to provide recommendation in regards to the preferable stock. In order to
compare the two given stock, associated risk and returns would be considered for the two
stocks. The measure of risk has been taken as beta while for the stock returns over five
years have also been derived from yahoo finance for both the stocks.
 Beta for RMD stock is 0.72 while beta for FPH stock is 1.21.
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