Chapter 2: 133E (page 132)
Best-paid CEOs.Refer to Glassdoor Economic Research firm鈥檚 2015 ranking of the 40 best-paid CEOs in Table 2.1 (p. 65). Recall that data were collected on a CEO鈥檚 current salary, age, and the ratio of salary to a typical worker鈥檚 pay at the firm.
a.Create a scatterplot to relate a CEO鈥檚 ratio of salary to worker pay to the CEO鈥檚 age. Comment on the strength of the association between these two variables.
b.Conduct an outlier analysis of the ratio variable. Identify the highly suspect outlier in the data.
c.Remove the highly suspect outlier from the data and recreate the scatterplot of part a. What do you observe?
Short Answer
a. The graph is given below:
No strong association
b.Highly suspect outlier = 1951
c. No major change