Purpose of Assignment<\/b><\/p>\n
The purpose of this assignment is to provide students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of their ability to apply statistical concepts to business situations to inform data-driven decision-making. The project is a 3-week project, with part 1 in Week 3, part 2 in Week 4, and part 3 in Week 5. In Week 3, students identify the organization, problem, research variable, methods for collecting data, and show mastery of validity and reliability as applied to data-collection methods.<\/p>\n
Resources: <\/b>Week 3 Videos; Week 3 Readings; Statistic Lab <\/p>\n
Tutorial help on Excel\u00ae and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft\u00ae Office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web offering support for Office products.<\/p>\n
Assignment Steps<\/b><\/p>\n
Identify <\/b>a business problem or opportunity at a company where you work or with which you are familiar. This will be a business problem you use for the individual assignments in Weeks 3-5. It should be a problem\/opportunity for which gathering and analyzing some type of data would help you understand the problem\/opportunity better. <\/p>\n
Identify<\/b> a research variable within the problem\/opportunity that could be measured with some type of data collection.<\/p>\n
Consider<\/b> methods for collecting a suitable sample of either qualitative or quantitative data for the variable.<\/p>\n
Consider<\/b>how you will know if the data collection method would be valid and reliable. <\/p>\n
Develop<\/b> a 1,050-word analysis to describe a company, problem, and variable including the following in your submission:<\/p>\n Format<\/b> your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.<\/p>\n Click <\/b>the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this assignment is to provide students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of their ability to apply statistical concepts to business situations to inform data-driven decision-making. The project is a 3-week project, with part 1 Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n