sees CLT] Question Paper Code : 86014 M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, AUGUST 2013. Second Semester DBA 1657 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (Regulation 2007/2009) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2 = 20 marks) 1. Compare fundamental and applied research. 2. What is the need for research design? 3. What are the possible sources of errors in measurement? 4. Distinguish between experiment and survey. 5. What is indeterminancy principle? 6. What is focused interview? 7. What are the types of correlation? 8. What are benefits of using SPSS for analysis? 9, Whats a reference? 10. State the role of audience in a research report.at 12, 13. 14, 16. fa) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) PART B — (5 x 16 = 80 marks) _impizical research in India in particular ereates so many problems for the researchers’, State the problems that are usually faced by such researchers, Or Prepare research design for hypothesis-testing research studies, Describe the technique of developing measurement tool, Or Discuss the relative merits and demerits of: G) Rating vs. ranking scales (i) Summated vs. cumulative scales (iii) Scalogram analysis vs. factor analysis. What are the guiding considerations in the construction of questionnaire? Explain. Or Should every research problem have a hypothesis? Discuss the steps involved in testing a hypothesis, Explain the methods of factor analysis, Or Briefly explain various multivariate techniques. Describe the mechanics of writing research report. Or Prepare recommendations and implementation sections from your just completed research. 2 86014‘Time 10. 11 Reg. No.: [se lee Question Paper Code : 86014 M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013. Second Semester DBA 1657 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (Regulation 2007/2009) Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Answer ALL questions. PART A—(10 x 2= 20 marks) What is longitudinal research? What are the features of scientific research? What is experimental design? State the factors affecting internal validity. What are the types of observation? What are the methods to increase response to postal and electronic questionnaires? Where can we use multivariate data analysis? What are the practical uses of canonical correlation? Define synopsis. What are the guidelines for presenting graphic aids? PART B — (5 x 16 = 80 marks) (a) Briefly explain the sequences of building blocks of scientific inquiry. Or () Write down a procedure for hypothesis testing.12. (a) (b) 13. (a) &) 14. (a) Examine critically the different experimental methods for data collection Or Describe the properties of measurement scales. Discuss the methods of data collection by big business houses in recent times, or Describe the methods of determining sample size. ‘The following data relate to the scores obtained by 9 salesmen of a company in an intelligence test and their weekly sales in thousand rupees. Scvunentatligenss Ac Bo Ca DeeE =~ Fo >. GO 3H 1 é ‘Test scores : 50 60. 50 60 680 6 80 80. 4070 Weekly sales a0 60 40. 50> 60 < a0 70 50 OD © 15. @) b) (Obtain the regression equation of sales on intelligence test scores of the salesmen. (ii) If the intelligence test score of a salesman is 65 what would be his expected weekly sales? Or Deseribe the steps in cluster analysis. ‘Suggest an outline of the research report that is generally accepted as the basic format for most research projects. Or State the precautions in writing a research report. iz: 86014Reg. No.:[ Isle eh(2T ] Question Paper Code : 75514 M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, AUGUST 2012, Second Semester DBA 1657 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (Regulation 2007/2009) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks x 10. u Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2= 20 marks) Define cross sectional and longitudinal studies. Define hypothesis and state its types. Define scale and state its types. Define validity and state its types. Define secondary data and its sources, State the various sampling techniques. Define factor analysis. Define multiple regression analysis. Define synopsis. Illustrate the structure of research report. PART B— (5 x 16 = 80 marks) (a) What are the key differences between basic and applied research? Give examples of research ideas and their derived focus research questions. Or (b) Discuss the exploratory study and descriptive study.12h 13. 14, 15. (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) ) Explain validity and its importance and discuss its threats. Or Explain the various scales for measurement of variables. Discuss the various tools of data collection Or Discuss the various sampling techniques. Define cluster and discriminant analysis and state its uses. Or Define canonical correlation. What is SPSS? Discuss the application of SPSS package. Define and describe the research report contents. Or Discuss the purpose of report writing, concept of audience and the basics of written reports. 2 75514‘Time 10. Reg. No.: {_ Question Paper Code : 85514 M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, FEBRUARY 2012. Second Semester DBA 1657 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (Regulation 2007/2009) ‘Three hours Maximum : 100 marks ‘Answer ALL questions. PART A— (10 x 2 = 20 marks) Define research process. Explain the types of hypothesis. Distinguish between nominal scale and ordinal scale. Define interval scale and give an example. Distinguish between primary data and secondary data. Distinguish between open ended question and close ended question. Also, give any two examples of each. What is factor rotation? List its types. Distinguish between regression and correlation. Define synopsis and discuss its scope. What are the types of charts used in research reports?uu. 12. 13. (a) (b) (a) ) (a) ) PART B— (5 x 16 = 80 marks) List and explain different types of research, (16) Or An automobile company presently buys connecting rods from Vendor X. But the quality manager is desiring to consider the supply of connecting rods from Vendor Y to meet the extra demand, provided the new vendor can supply the connecting rods with good precision on its length on par with that of the Vendor X. If the length is more than the necessity, it will lead to excessive filing time while assembling. Hence, it should be avoided. The length of the connecting rods supplied by Vendor X as well as Vendor Y follows normal distribution with variances of 9 mm and 12 mm, respectively. He has selected 81 connecting rods from the Vendor X and found that the mean length of the sample is 450 mm. Similarly, he selected 64 connecting rods from the Vendor ¥ and found that the mean length of the sample is 455 mm. Check whether the quality manager can consider the supply from the Vendor Y at a significance level of 0.05. (16) Explain the steps of construction of Thurstone’s Case-V scale model. (16) Or Illustrate the steps of Osgood’s semantic differential scale with an example. (16) Explain the types of personal interview with an illustrations, (16) Or () Distinguish between stratified sampling and cluster sampling by giving suitable examples. (3) (ii) The axial length of pistons produced follows normal distribution with the variance of 64 mm. Determine the sample size such that the mean length of pistons is within plus or minus 2 mm with a confidence level of 95%. @) 2 8551414. @ ) 15. (a) ) ‘The results of a survey on the sales of a product(¥) as a function of time period (X) are summarized below. my, Mean 40 126 Standard deviation 2.5 16 Correlation coefficient (r) 0.85 (i) Fit the regression line of Y on X and estimate the value of ¥ when X is 45. (8) (ii) _ Fit the regression line of X on Y and estimate the value of X when Y is 135. (6) Or Explain different hierarchical clustering methods. (16) What are the items in a survey based research report? Explain them in brief. (16) Or (i) Discuss the guidelines for preparing bibliography. (12) (ii) Give a sample cover page of a research report. @ 3 85514Reg. No. : Question Paper Code : 95514 M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, AUGUST 2011 Second Semester DBA 1657 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (Regulation 2007/2009) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks 10. 1 Answer ALL questions PART A — (10x = 20 marks) What is applied research? What is cross-sectional design? What is semantic differential scale? What is confounding variable? What is an optimum sample? What is store audit? What is a cluster analysis? What is multicollinearity? Differentiate bibliography from footnote. How do you focus your report on audience? PART B — (5 x 16 = 80 marks) (a) Briefly describe the steps in preparing a research design. Or (>) G@) —_Delineate the important uses of review of related literature, (8) (ii) What are the sources of a research problem? (8)ge 13. 14. 15. (a) () (a) (b) () (b) (@) () (i) What are the tests applied for sound measurement? (8) (ii) Explain the techniques of scale construction. (8) Or Briefly explain the types of experimental designs used in marketing. Explain various types of non-probability sampling. Or (i) Describe the procedure for hypothesis testing with a flow diagram. (8) (ii) What are the steps in sampling process? (8) Briefly explain various multivariate techniques, Or ‘The scores of two groups in a 15 point scale is given below : Xo ey 2) Sie tla 15 “10, 6 Yi 2 he 6 dee 8 oe Oe ee Find out the relation exists between these two groups. What are the precautions to be observed for writing research reports? — Explain, or Prepare a general outline of a technical report. 2 95514Reg. No. : Question Paper Code : 85514 M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, FEBRUARY 2011. Second Semester DBA 1657 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (Regulation 2007/2009) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2= 20 marks) 1. Define ‘Alternative Hypothesis’. 2. At what circumstances do you apply two tail test? 3, Explain the differences between ordinal scale and nominal scale. 4, — Explain about a measure which is used to measure the reliability. 5. What parameters do you require to determine the sample size? 6. What do you mean stratified random sampling? 7. How do you arrive at discriminant loading? 8. _ How do you determine the coefficient of determination? 9. List the contents of a research report. 10. What do you understand the term ‘Research Gap’?iL. 12. 13, 14, (a) ) fa) &) (a) b) (@) PART B— (6 x 16 = 80 marks) (i) Describe the general procedure for conducting a t-test? (8) (i) What is the major difference between parametric and non parametric tests? ® Or A manufacturer of car batteries claims that its premium line batteries have an average life of 50 months. It is known that the standard deviation of battery life is 4 months for premium batteries made by this company. What percentage of samples of 36 observations will have an average mean life of within 1 month of 50 months, assuming 60 is the true average life of batteries. What is the answer if a sample of 64 observations is taken? (i) Differentiate between internal and external validity? ® (ii) What are the advantages of a ratio scale over an Internal scale? Are these advantages significant? @) Or (What is measurement? @ (i) Explain the advantages and disadvantages of passed comparison scaling. (12) Explain each step of questionnaire design process? Or (Define focus group. © (ii) A typist is being timed while addressing envelopes. After six cycles, the elapsed times, in minutes, for one of the elements of the task are found to be as follows 0.07, 0.08, 0.07, 0.09, 0.09, 0.07. The analyst wants chances to be 95 out of 100 that the average time he obtains for this element will be within 6 percent population average. Does he have a sufficient number of observations? If not, how many more must he make? 0) (@ Define factor loading. (4) (i) Explain simple structure principle. © Git) How do you arrive at canonical loading? © Or 2 8551415, (b) (a) b) Apply the data from area car dealers on mileage and prices of cars of a certain brand, The sample data come from a random sample of area dealers as shown in the table. Observations Mileage Selling prince 1 40 1000 2 30 1500 3 30 1200 4 25 1800 5 50 800 6 60 1000 1 65 500 8 10 3000 9 15 2500 10 20 2000 ul 55 800 12 40 1500 13 35 2000 14 30 2000 (i) Explain the process of report preparation. (ii) Explain the guidelines for report writing. Or Describe the following in a research report, Title page Table of contents Executive summary Problem definition Research design Data analysis Conclusions Recommendations. 8) )) 85514M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, AUGUST 2010. Second Semester DBA 1657 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (Regulation 2007/2009) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2 = 20 marks) 1. What is applied research? 2. What are the criteria for good research? 3. What is validity? 4. What is confounding variable? 5. What is an optimum sample? 6. What is Focus group interview? 7. What are the marketing applications of factor analysis? 8 What is Canonical correlation? 9. What is interpretation? 10. What is referencing? PART B— (5 x 16 = 80 marks) 11. (a) Briefly describe the steps in preparing a research design. Or () Briefly explain the techniques involved in defining a research problem with an example.12, 13, 14, 1b. (@) ) @ ©) (@) ) @ () Discuss the various types of measurement scales. Or Examine critically the different experimental methods of data collection. Explain the various types of probability sampling. Or Describe the procedure for hypothesis testing with a flow diagram. ‘How do statistical techniques used in management research? - Explain. Or ‘The following data relate to the scores obtained by 9 salesmen of a company in an intelligence test and their weekly sales in thousand rupees. Salesman intelligence: A B C D E F GH I ‘Test scores : 50 60 50 60 80 50 80 40 70 Weekly sales : 30 60 40 50 60 30 70 50 60 () Obtain the regression equation of sales on intelligence test scores of the salesmen. (ii) If the intelligence test score of a salesman is 65 what would be his expected weekly sales? Suggest an outline of the research report that is generally accepted as the basic format for most research projects. Or Discuss the guidelines for writing the research report. 2 GG 1514Reg.No.:[ | M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, FEBRUARY 2010. Second Semester DBA 1657 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (Regulation 2007) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks 10. 1. Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2 = 20 marks) Define Experiential survey. “Define hypothesis. What is ordinal scale? Define measurement. Define mall intercept interview. Define cluster sampling. Define factor rotation. Distinguish between regression and correlation. Define research report. Give a sample cover page of a research report. PART B — (5 x 16 = 80 marks) (a) List and explain different types of research. Or (b) What are the stages of research process?12. (a) Explain the steps in constructing Thurstone’s case-V scale. Or (b) Discuss the steps in experimental design and its importance in survey based research. 13, (a) A leading automobile company plans to introduce “Flying Car”. Design a table questionnaire to identify its demand. Also, state any four statistical analysis that are to carried out for effective decision making. Or (b) (i) The diameter of shafts produced in a machine follows normal distribution. A random sample of 20 shafts‘are taken from the production. The mean and variance of the diameter of the shafts in the sample are 40 mm and 11 mam, respectively. Find the confidence interval for the diameter of shafts at a significance level of 0.10. (ii) The finance manager of a company feels that 55% of branches will have enhanced yearly collection of deposits after introducing a hike in interest rate. Determine the sample size such that the mean proportion is within plus or minus 0.05 at a confidence level of 90%. 14, (a) The annual training expenditure (lakhs of rupees) and the corresponding labour productivity index (0 to 100) for the past 8 years of a company are presented below. Year (i): dea 33h 68.2: 7, 8. Annual training expenditure, X,: 5 7 9 10 12 15 18 20 Productivity, ¥; : 80 90 75 85 95 70 95 60 Find the correlation coefficient between annual training expenditure and labour productivity index. Or (b) List different methods of cluster analysis and explain any one of them with an example. 15. (a) Give the table of content of a survey based research report of your choice and explain the scope of each item in it. Or (b) What are the types of research report? Explain them in brief. 2 ‘YY 1514Reg. No. Z 1514 M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, FEBRUARY 2009. Second Semester DBA 1657 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (Regulation 2007) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2 = 20 marks) 1. Define research methodology. 2. Define descriptive research. 3. Define field experiment. 4. Define measurement. 5. What is sampling frame? 6. What is quota sampling? 7. — What is factor rotation? What are the methods of factor rotation? 8. Distinguish between regression and correlation. 9. Define Synopsis. 10. Define technical report.ul. 12, 13. (a) b) (a) ) (a) ) PART B — (5 x 16 = 80 marks) Describe the different types of research. Or Define the research process. Explain its steps. Explain the following and also compare and contrast them. (Nominal scale (ii) Ordinal scale (ii) Interval scale (iv) Ratio scale. Or Illustrate the construction of Thurstone’s scale with an example. What are the advantages and disadvantages? Discuss the steps of questionnaire design. Or A survey is conducted to analyze the status of employment of the recently graduated batch of students of a premier technological university. It is planned to conduct stratified sampling for this study. So, the population which consists of different colleges ia divided into three strata, viz., government colleges, aided colleges and self-financing colleges. Since, the regulations of AICTE and the respective university ensure uniform standard of infrastructure and educational standards, proportional stratified sampling is used for this study. The total number of engineering colleges in the university is 200. ‘I'he number of engineering ‘ded and self-financing are 20, 60 and 130, respectively. If the sample size is 20, determine the number of colleges to be sampled from each category. colleges in the three categories, viz., government, 2 Z151414. (a) Discuss the steps of principal component method. Or (b) A District Industries Centre (DIC) has collected data summarizing the number of industries in the district under each combination of the equity capital and rate of return as shown below. Find the correlation coefficient of this grouped data. Rate of Return in % Equity (crores of Rs.) 24 46 68 11 2 11-13 5 13-15 38 15-17 1 5 7 7 3 1 aww 15. (a) Give a sample table of contents of a survey based research report of your choice and explain the items in it. Or (b) Discuss the guidelines for preparing bibliography. Z 1514Reg. No. LL 1614) MBA, DEGREE EXAMINATION, AUGUST 2009. Second Semester DRA 1667 — RESEARCH METHODS IN BUSINESS (egolation 2007) ‘me: Three hours Mosim + 100 marks Answer ALL questions, PART A—(0%2= 20 marks) 1, What i ors acotions design? 2. State the qualities of «god research 5. What ie tomanticdiffrential sala? 4. What ie intsenal wait? 5. Define feeus group. 6. What is chuster sampling? 7. What in content analysis? 18. Define canonical correlation 8. What ar the benefits of commendations mide in the research report? 10, Differentiate bibliography from footnote. PART B— x16 60 masis) 11, (@) What are the important concepts related to research design? Discuss or (0) Describe the procedure for hypotivesis testing with a Now diagram.12. (@) @ What.are the tests of ound measurement? ® What ra the base principles of experimental designs? ® Or (©) Discuss the vatious typos of measurement scales, 18, (@) Discus the mothods of data collection by big business houses in recent or (©) Explain various types of non-probability sampling. 14, (@) Briefly explain various multivariate techniques. Or () The following figures, released by the Federal Trade Commission, show the milligrams of tar and nicotine found in 10 brands of cigarettes. Cigarette Brand Tar Content Nieotine Content Vicoroy “ 09 Masiboro "7 at Chester file 28 16 Kot 1 1a Kent 16 10 Raleigh 13 08 1a Geld 2 15. Philip Morea 2% 14 asia 8 12 Pagers a 20 Calculate the rank comvelation coefficient to measure the degree of relationship between tar and nicotine eoutent in cigarettes 15, (@) Briefly explain steps in writing research reports, or (@) Explain with examples vavions types of charts ond diagrams. 2 Ube