BCO127 Applied Management Statistics Task brief
Assignment: The assignment is worth 40% of your marks for this subject.
Deadline and submission: Your assignment must be submitted via Turnitin on Moodle before 23:59 on Sunday 10th May 2020.
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Title: Built on the acquired theoretical and practical knowledge of the second part of the semester you are required to solve the following problems:
You must provide an explanation of your results in all your answers.
- (15%) For Applied Management Statistics class you want to know how college students feel
about the transportation system in Barcelona.
- What is the population in this study?
- What type of sample would you use and why?
- (25%) A manager of an e-commerce company would like to determine average delivery time of the products. A sample of 25 customers is taken. The average delivery time in the sample was four days. Suppose the delivery times are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.2 days.
- Provide a 95 % confidence interval for the mean delivery time.
- The manager claims that the average delivery time of their products does not exceed 3 days. Write the null and alternative hypothesis regarding to the claim of the manager.
- Test the manager’s claim at 95 % confidence level.
- Write the conclusion of your result
- (15%) For an effective parental skill study, a researcher asked: How many hours do your kids watch the television during a typical week in Barcelona? The mean of 100 Kids (ages 6-11) spend about 28 hours a week in front of the TV. Suppose the study follows a normal distribution with standard deviation 5.
- Estimate the mean of all kids (ages 6-11) in Barcelona, using 99% confidence interval. (show all the calculations)
- Write the conclusion of your result
- (25%) A regression analysis has been conducted between the annual income (in 1000 euros) and the work experience (in years) of people with 0.05 significance level. The results are summarized below.
- Define the independent and dependent variables. What can you say about the correlation between them.
BCO127 Applied Management Statistics Task brief
- Interpret R Square.
- Write the regression model and interpret the coefficients.
- Estimate the average annual income of a person who has 15 years of work experience.
Summary | ||||||
Table 1. | ||||||
Regression Statistics | ||||||
Multiple R | 0,93 | |||||
R Square | 0,86 | |||||
Adjusted R Square | 0,82 | |||||
Standard Error | 2,11 | |||||
Observations | 6 | |||||
Table 2. | ||||||
df | SS | MS | F | Significance F | ||
Regression | 1 | 107,603 | 107,603 | 24,276 | 0,008 | |
Residual | 4 | 17,730 | 4,432 | |||
Total | 5 | 125,333 | ||||
Table 3. |
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Coefficients | Standard Error | t stat | p value | Lower 95% | Upper 95% | |
Intercept | 17,351 | 3,160 | 5,491 | 0,005 | 8,577 | 26,124 |
Variable X 1 | 1,362 | 0,276 | 4,927 | 0,008 | 0,595 | 2,130 |
- (20%) In order to analyze the performance of smart phones, the characteristics of 293 smart phone models have been recorded. Assume that for the initial analysis we would like to work with a sample of 10 observations. Choose a sample consisting 10 different smart phones by simple random sampling considering the table of random numbers given in the Appendix. You can begin from any row or column. Write your explanations for each step of choice and give a list of the sampled smart phone models.
- Apple iPhone 7
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- HTC J
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APPENDIX: Table of Random Numbers
Source: Berenson, M.L., Levine, D.M. and Krehbiel, T.C. (2012). Basic Business Statistics: Concepts and Applications, 12th Edition, Pearson.
Rubrics
Questions worth 25 points
Descriptor | ||||
22.5 | – | 25 | The student uses the proper formulas, completes the calculations correctly, arrives to the right result, draws the graph correctly when required | |
20 | – | 22.3 | The student uses the right formula, but applies it wrongly (minor errors, figures in the wrong place…) and then, of course, the result is wrong | |
17.5 | – | 19.8 | The student demonstrates a fair understanding of the meaning of the data given and of the question asked, but he/she is not able to identify the formula to be used, does larger errors and/or the calculations are wrong. | |
10 | – | 17.3 | The student demonstrates some understanding of the concepts but he/she is not able to relate the data given in any way | |
2.5 | – | 9.75 | The student demonstrates insufficient understanding of the concepts and does not mention any relevant ideas or concepts, but he/she done not leave it blank | |
0 | The student leaves the question blank or cheats. |
Questions worth 20 points
Descriptor | |
18-20 | The student uses the proper formulas, completes the calculations correctly, arrives to the right result, draws the graph correctly when required |
16-17.9 | The student uses the right formula, but applies it wrongly (minor errors, figures in the wrong place…) and then, of course, the result is wrong |
14-15.9 | The student demonstrates a fair understanding of the meaning of the data given and of the question asked, but he/she is not able to identify the formula to be used, does larger errors and/or the calculations are wrong. |
8-13.9 | The student demonstrates some understanding of the concepts but he/she is not able to relate the data given in any way |
1-7.9 | The student demonstrates insufficient understanding of the concepts and does not mention any relevant ideas or concepts, but he/she done not leave it blank |
0 | The student leaves the question blank or cheats. |
Questions worth 15 points
Descriptor | |||
13.5 | – | 15 | The student demonstrates an excellent understanding of the concepts. |
12 | – | 13.4 | The student demonstrates a good understanding of the concepts. |
10.5 | – | 11.9 | The student demonstrates a fair understanding of the concepts. |
9 | – | 10.4 | The student demonstrates some, but insufficient understanding of the concepts. |
4.5 | – | 8.85 | The student demonstrates insufficient understanding of the concepts. They may mention some relevant ideas or concepts, although it is clear that the relationship between them is not understood by the student. |
1.5 | – | 4.35 | The student demonstrates insufficient understanding of the concepts and does not mention any relevant ideas or concepts. |
0 | The student leaves the question blank or cheats. |
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