Case Study Outline

Look at one of the suggested data sets, or collect your own data. Analyze the data using the following outline:
  1. State the Research question, e.g. "What do students think about an all freshmen East Campus?"
  2. Formalize it, e.g.:
    1. Do students prefer an all fresh East?
    2. Are there any differences betw freshm, soph, juniors & seniors?
    3. Any diff's across majors?
    4. Are sex and east campus pref related?
  3. Describe how you collected your data or which exisiting data you will use. For example, randomly sample n=100 students (best randomization practicable was to ask ...). Ask each student for:
    want all fresh east? (0: no, 1: yes)
    year (1: fresh, 2: soph, 3: junior, 4: senior)
    major (ENGL,STAT,...)
    sex (0: male, 1: female)
    score for fresh east (between 0 and 10: 0=sure not, 10=sure yes)
    Or just reference one of the suggested data sets.
  4. Display data using descriptive statistics , e.g.:
    
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    	------+---------+----------+-----------+--
    	    Freshm    Sopho      Junior      Senior
    
    
    
  5. Do your formal inference:
    Test for binomial proportion: z-test
    ANOVA with columns=year
    ANOVA with columns=major
    test of independence in contingency table SEX vs. WANT
    See the Minitab page.
  6. Summarize in words...

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