Project

Deadline: 15.01.2020

P1. Make a statistical research, based on a sample from a population, including variables
related to each other. Should be included at least two/three variables from each type,
respectively: three quantitative variables at least two being continuous, qualitative -
nominal data, qualitative - ordinal data. The collection of data will be made with the aid
of a small questionnaire, or from other sources (Eurostat, World Bank, …);.
Your sample has to include at least 40 units.
Make a short research’s presentation: statistical population under study,
elementary unit, the research’s objective, the sample size, type of sampling, describe the
variables.

P2. Univariated analysis: tables, graphs, descriptive statistics

a) Analyze data for a qualitative variable, nominal data
a1) Tables of frequencies (count and percents) Analyze/Descriptives/Frequencis.
a2) Graphs: bar chart, pie chart. a3) Mode.
b) Analyze data for a qualitative variable, ordinal data
b1) Frequencies: frequency, percents, cumulative percents. b2) Graphs: bar chart,
pie chart (title, percents). b3) Mode, Median.
c) Analyze data for a continuous quantitative variable (raw of data; scale):
c1) Graphs: Histogram. c2) Central tendency: Mean, Median, Mode. Percentile
values: quartiles, deciles. Variation: minimum value, maximum value, range,
standard deviation, variance, coefficient of variation (CV), interquartile range,
kurtosis and skewness. Analyze/Descriptives/Descriptive Statistics
d) Some interesting crosstabs for 2 variables with nominal or ordinal data (related,
associated variables).

Specify, at each point, what information bring the output statistics

P3. Choose the main quantitative variable X from your statistical research (connected to
the investigation’s objective):
a) compute and interpret the confidence interval for mean of X, maximum error of
the estimate E, standard error for the mean S.E.. Analyze/Descriptives
Statistics/Explore. From Statistics, Descriptives.

P4. a) Test a hypothesis concerning a mean (Analyse/ Compare means / One-Sample T

test); b) Test a hypothesis on a proportion (Analyse/ Nonparametric Tests/Binomial); c)
Test a hypotheses concerning the differences of two means (Analyse/ Compare means /
Independent-Samples T test).

P5. a) Select two qualitative variables: i) Obtain the crosstab, containing the observed
and also the expected frequencies (counts); ii) Test if the 2 variables are independent of
each other, using the chi-square statistic; iii) Study the degree of association between
variables (Analyze/Descriptive Statistics/Crosstabs, from Statistics, Cells).
b) Select 2 variables: a dependent variable X which is quantitative, and an independent
variable C (factor) qualitative. Perform the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA): i) What say
the statistics from Descriptive and the Means plot (from Options)? ii) Compute F calc
and decide if the factor C has a significant effect on dependent variable X.
Analyze/Compare Means/One-way ANOVA; Options.

P6. Data consist of a sample of countries (at least 20) observed relating to 3 variables: a
dependent variable Y and 2 independent (explanatory) variables suggested by the
economic theory; data should be downloaded from World Bank or Eurostat. a) Estimate
the multiple linear regression; b) Decide if each of explanatory variables is useful in
explaining the variation of Y (see t and Sig. for Coefficients B) and maintain only
variables with significant effect on Y; interpret the regression coefficients and obtain the
confidence intervals for these; c) Compute and analyze the multiple correlation
coefficient (R). Apply F-test (from ANOVA table) and decide if the model explains a
significant part of the variation in Y; d) Obtain predictions and confidence intervals for
predictions; e) Introduce a dummy variable in regression, interpret the coefficient of this
variable and decide if the dummy variable contribute to explain variation in Y; f)
Estimate also a nonlinear regressions, suggested by scatter plot, considering only one
independent variable; (Analyse/Regession/CurveEstimation).

Analyse/Regession/Linear. From Statistics, select Estimates, Confidence intervals, Model

fit, From Save select Predicted values (unstandardized), Residuals (unstandardized),
Prediction intervals/Mean.

Observations

A. The project should be written as a word document (with outputs saved from SPSS);
the data bases will be delivered on a CD. This is an individual work, each student has
own database. If the project is delivered after deadline, the grade is diminished with 1
point (ex. from 10 to 9).

Some sources for databases:

 SPSS/Tutorial/Sample~1. There are some samples coming with SPSS
installation. See on the location of the software (usually C:\Program
Files\SPSS\tutorial\SAMPLE~1) .
 any database available (including web) in SPSS
 A database from DataProject1.zip
 data files from surveys (SPSS): http://www.publicinfo.ro/pagini/sondaje-de-
opinie.php
 http://www.osf.ro/ro/programe.php/; http://www.roda.ro/;
http://www.edrc.ro/projects.jsp?program_id=3&project_id=19
 http://www.norc.org/GSS+Website/Download/SPSS+Format/
 http://www.pineforge.com/frankfort-nachmiasstudy5/resources/DataSets.htm
  http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=5
 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjoh2052/data.htm#household
 http://www.causeweb.org/resources/links.php
 http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/allsubjects.html
 http://einstein.library.emory.edu/courses/ps309_S05.html
 http://www.norc.org/projects/gensoc.asp
 http://statisticasociala.tripod.com/aplicatii.html
 Obtain a database on a level of some economic or financial indicators for a
sample of countries, from:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator
 a database from the teacher.

SPSS Tutorial: 1) !!SPSS: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/spss.php (movie)

2) SPSS Survival Manual - A Step by Step Guide to Data Analysis Using SPSS for
Windows, 3rd Edition Aug 2007.pdf
3) http://web.lemoyne.edu/~rinaman/SPSS%20Lab%20Manual.pdf