The following table gives the top five television shows, as determined by the Nielsen Ratings for the week ending October 19, 2008. Rank Show title Network Viewers (millions) 1 CSI CBS 19.3 2 NCIS CBS 18.0 3 Dancing with the Stars ABC 17.8 4 Desperate Housewives ABC 15.5 5 The Mentalist CBS 14.9 a. What type of data is presented in the first column of the table? b. What type of data is presented in the second column of the table? c. What type of data is presented in the third column of the table? d. What type of data is provided by the information in the fourth column of the table?
(a)
The type of data is presented in the first column of the table: Ordinal type of data
because Ranks of the top five television shows are given in the first column of the table.
(b)
The type of data is presented in the second column of the table: Nominal type of data
because Show Tiltle of the top five television shows are given in the second column of the table.
(c)
The type of data is presented in the third column of the table: Nominal type of data
because Netwok of the top five television shows are given in the third column of the table.
(d)
The type of data is presented in the fourth column of the table: Ratio type of data
because Viewers of the top five television shows are given in the fourth column of the table.
The following table gives the top five television shows, as determined by the Nielsen Ratings for...