Loose Leaf for Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics
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Determine a typical seasonal index for each of the four quarters.
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The creator of a new online multiplayer survival game has been tracking the monthly downloads of the game. The following table shows the monthly downloads (in thousands) for each month of the current and previous year.
Click on the datafile logo to reference the data.
Month
Downloads
Month
Downloads
(previous year)
(thousands)
(current year)
(thousands)
February
33.0
January
37.0
March
34.0
February
35.0
April
34.0
March
37.0
May
32.0
April
38.0
June
32.0
May
35.0
July
35.0
June
36.0
August
35.0
July
35.0
September
37.0
August
35.0
October
37.0
September
34.0
November
36.0
October
31.0
December
34.0
Compute the mean, median, and mode for number of downloads in the previous year.
Mean (to 3 decimals)
thousand
Median (to 2 decimal)
thousand
Mode (to 2 decimal)
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Loose Leaf for Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics
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