The file Accounting Partners contains the number of partners in a cohort of rising accounting firms with fewer than 225 employees that have been tagged as "firms to watch." The firms have the following numbers of partners:
24 32 12 13 29 30 26 17 15 21 16 23
21 19 30 14 9 30 17
Source: Data extracted from www.accountingtoday.com/gallery/ Top-100-Accounting-Firms-Data-62569-l.html.
a. Compute the mean, median, and mode.
b. Compute the variance, standard deviation, range, coefficient of variation, and Z scores. Are there any outliers? Explain.
c. Are the data skewed? If so, how?
d. Based on the results of (a) through (c), what conclusions can you reach concerning the number of partners in rising accounting firms?