MGMT2012: GROUP COURSEWORK ASSESSMENT #2: Deadline – Monday March 29th 11.

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pm uploaded to e-learning as a PDF document.

Instructions: Groups (5 to 7 members only) are required to complete Problem A for their second
coursework assessment (worth 20% of their overall coursework grade). The project will seek to
address the eleven (11) numbered questions attached to the problem; each answer should be on a
separate page with all relevant workings and calculations as well as the steps that were used to arrive at
workings and answers. For example, as you approach each question, tell the reader (at each step) what
is being done and give appropriate reasons/justification.

A. Analyze the following data from 50 Barbadian students at the Cave Hill Campus from the Faculty
of Social Sciences: (i) Current GPA; (ii) Age in years; (iii) Employment preference (hint: asked
whether they would prefer to work in Barbados or in another territory: Options: Barbados or
Other territory), (iv Business ownership intentions (specifically, asked whether they would start a
new business in the near future: Options: Yes or No), and (v) Gender (Options: Male or Female)
to address the following questions:

1. Test at the 10% level of significance whether the average GPA is less than 3.00.

2. Construct a 99% confidence interval (1% level) whether the average GPA is different from
3.00.

3. Comment on the differences between questions 1 and 2.

4. Test at the 5% level of significance whether the average GPA is greater than 2.30.

5. Test at the 5% level of significance whether the proportion of students who will start a new
business is more than 60% (i.e. 0.60).

6. Test at the 5% level of significance whether the mean GPA of males is lower than that of
females.

7. Test at the 10% level of significance whether there is difference in the proportions of male
and female students who prefer to work in Barbados.

8. Based on 5% level of significance, can we say that gender and business ownership intentions
are related?

9. What is the correlation coefficient between GPA and age? Also Test at the 5% level of
significance whether the correlation is not zero.

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10. Work out the regression line equation, y = a + bx (y = b 0 + b1), for the above data on GPA (y)
and age (x). Estimate the GPA if a student is 20 years of age.

11. Using Excel (or any available statistical package such as SPSS), create a Scatter Plot and an
ANOVA table using the regression selection in the Data Analysis tab for the above data on
GPA (y) and age (x). On the scatter plot remember to label the chart as well as the x and Y
axis. Secondly, insert a Linear Trend Line and display the equation on the chart as well as
the r-squared value. Comment on your observations.

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Use this Data from the Template Forms from 50 Students to answer the above questions:

Will you start

a new
Employmen
business in Gender:
t Preference
the near
Responden Current Age in future?
t GPA years
(Barbados
or Other (Yes or No) M or F
territory)

1 3.44 29 Barbados Yes Male

2 2.16 23 Other Yes Male
3 3.25 24 Barbados No Female
4 3.01 44 Other No Male
5 2.34 31 Barbados Yes Female
6 3.94 26 Other No Male
7 3.15 35 Other No Female
8 2.53 42 Other No Male
9 3.21 23 Other No Male
10 3.04 42 Barbados Yes Female
11 1.25 19 Barbados No Male
12 3.14 53 Barbados Yes Male
13 3.56 54 Barbados No Female
14 3.31 58 Other Yes Female
15 3.34 36 Barbados Yes Male
16 2.94 25 Other No Male
17 3.15 54 Other No Female
18 2.53 42 Barbados No Male
19 2.21 24 Barbados Yes Female
20 2.04 24 Barbados Yes Female
21 3.23 39 Barbados Yes Male
22 2.94 23 Other No Male
23 3.31 54 Barbados No Female
24 2.31 28 Other Yes Male
25 2.34 26 Barbados Yes Female
26 1.94 25 Other Yes Male
27 4 24 Other Yes Female
28 3.53 42 Other Yes Male

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 Will you start
a new
Employmen
business in Gender:
t Preference
the near
Responden Current Age in future?
t GPA years
(Barbados
or Other (Yes or No) M or F
territory)

3.21 26 Barbados Yes Male

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30 3.04 26 Other No Female
31 3.22 25 Other No Female
32 3.79 22 Barbados No Female
33 4 26 Barbados No Male
34 2.77 23 Barbados Yes Female
35 2.98 25 Other No Female
36 3.22 40 Barbados No Male
37 3.98 39 Barbados Yes Male
38 2.99 33 Barbados Yes Female
39 3.76 33 Other No Female
40 2.77 30 Other No Male
41 3.87 21 Barbados No Female
42 3.67 19 Other Yes Male
43 3 22 Other No Male
44 4.01 23 Barbados No Female
45 3.22 43 Other Yes Male
46 3.45 31 Barbados Yes Female
47 3.21 28 Barbados No Male
48 3.33 29 Barbados No Female
49 3.22 27 Other Yes Female
50 4 32 Other Yes Female

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 EXAMPLE OF GROUP REPORT TEMPLATE

COVER PAGE WITH COURSE TITLE AND CODE, LECTURER NAME, DATE OF SUBMISSION, NAMES AND
ID NUMBERS OF GROUP MEMBERS (COVER PAGE MUST BE TYPED AND NOT HANDWRITTEN)

You can use the below diagrams please remember to edit as needed.

α/2 =10% /2= 5%

Reject Ho
Reject Ho
5% (0.05)
5% (0.05)

-2.576 2.576
0

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 α = 0.05 (5%)

Rejection Region

0 X2 = 3.841

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 (THIS REPRESENTS THE BODY OF THE REPORT)

Question 1: Test at the 5% level of significance that…… (use a separate question as a heading for each
page in the project)

INTRODUCTION: Under each question heading, provide an introduction that: (1) identify what the
correct statistical procedure (i.e. whether you will use a one sample t-test or chi-square test), (2) the
reason or justification of the selected test (e.g. The one sample t-test was used because we are testing
whether a sample mean is equal to a particular population mean, and the sample size was under 30
and the population standard deviation was unknown). Of course, if the question requires hypothesis
testing, then you should highlight the hypotheses (null and alternative hypotheses). In the section
below, you have to show all working for calculation of the specific test(s) (including the steps to derive
the mean and standard deviation, if possible, to be used in the test statistic formula) as well as steps
in the hypothesis testing procedure (if possible). Introduction should be TYPED using Word.

STATISTICAL WORKING/STEPS (MAY BE HANDWRITTEN): Relevant tables (for example, data

presented in contingency tables for chi-square analyses or tables for calculating the regression,
correlation or even simple descriptive mean or standard deviation statistics) should be clearly
presented after the introduction above. Not every question may require a table . All relevant workings
will be displayed here too. As you present the working at each stage/step, you should describe, in
words, the outputs of your analysis clearly. For example: “Based on the calculation of test statistic
here, the result was 4.05 and this was compared against the alpha level of .05 and degrees of freedom
of 12 (given df = 13-1)”. It is important to mention that if you had used ‘working’ to derive certain
values such as a mean or standard deviation in one question, and the second question requires the
same mean or standard deviation, then you don’t have to do over the actual working but refer the
reader to the prior calculation and simply write the values to solve the problem in the second
question. The analyses here can be handwritten (legibly and clearly), or it can be typed using Word
but all the statistical symbols, graphical distributions, workings, and formulae must be clearly
presented.

CONCLUSIONS: After the working, this final sub-section should provide a small paragraph (one to
three sentences) about the answers/conclusions about the test results/findings from second section
above on ‘working’.

NB: ENSURE ALL RELEVANT WORKINGS AND STEPS ARE CAREFULLY DETAILED AND CONCLUSIONS
DRAWN APPROPRIATELY FOR EACH QUESTION ADDRESSED FOR THE PROBLEM (THIS REPRESENTS THE
BODY OF THE REPORT)