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Week 1 DQ1
Where would you see descriptive statistics used in your work
place?
Week 1 DQ2
How would you define dependent and independent variables?
What is their significance in research? Explain with examples.
Week 1 DQ3
Developfive demographic questions to measure gender, age,
years of experience, level of education, and ethnicity. Identify the
level of measurement used for each
Week 1 DQ4
How would you define a variable? What is the difference between
a dependent and independent variable? Do you think both
variables are used in every research? Explain why or why not.
Provide examples.
Week 1 DQ5
What is the importance of statistics in business decision making?
Describe a business situation where statistics was used in making
a decision.
Week 1 DQ6
What are the four data measurement scales? Provide two
examples and explain the importance of each in business
research.
Week 2 DQ1
Can mean, median, or mode be calculated from all statistical
data? Explain why or why not. When is the mean the best
measure of central tendency? When is the median the best
measure of central tendency?
Week 2 DQ2
Describe a business situation, other than what has already been
selected by fellow students or selected from the team assignment,
where mean and standard deviation can be used in decision
making. Describe how calculation of mean and standard deviation
can help in making a decision.
Week 2 DQ3
What level of data is a telephone number? Explain.
Week 2 DQ4
Does all data have a mean, median, or mode? Why or why not?
When is the mean the best measure of central tendency? When is
the median the best measure of central tendency?
Week 2 DQ5
Why is the population shape a concern when estimating a mean?
What effect does sample size, n, have on the estimate of the
mean?
Week 2 Problems
1.Choose the correct answer bellow:
A. It is an estimate or prediction or some other generalization
about a population based on information contained in a sample
Week 3 DQ1
What are the differences between probability and coincidence?
Can the probability be more than 1 or less than 0? Explain why or
why not.
Week 3 DQ2
What is the role of probability concepts in business decisionmaking? Provide specific examples.
Week 3 DQ3
What are the basic differences between a discrete and a
continuous distribution?
Week 3 DQ4
What are the characteristics of standard normal distribution?
Explain how to calculate the z-test static. Explain how a z-value is
used to calculate the area under the distribution and the meaning
of P(0 to z) when z = 1.96.
Week 3 Problems
1. An industrial group reports that there were approximately
122,000 industrial robots operating in a region last year. The
graph shows the percentages of industrial robot units assigned to
each of six task categories.
Week 4 DQ1
What are some terms related to hypothesis testing with which you
are already familiar? Why do null and alternative hypotheses have
to be mutually exclusive?
Week 4 DQ2
Why does the significance level differ among industries? Will the
null hypothesis be more likely to be rejected at = 0.01 than
= 0.10? As the significance level increases to = 0.10 from
= 0.01, which type error is more likely to occur? What can be done
to reduce the likelihood of incurring this error?
Week 4 DQ3
Please explain the five steps used in hypothesis testing. How does
the five-step procedure for hypothesis testing differ when
comparing two groups using at-orz-test? How is the process
similar?
Week 4 DQ4
Please explain terms related to hypothesis testing; please explain
null and alternate hypotheses, explain the difference between two
different test statistics, then define the equations used in both.
Why do null and alternative hypotheses have to be mutually
exclusive?
Week 4 Problems
1. Determine whether the random variable is discrete or
continuous.
a. the number of textbook authors now sitting at a computer
b. the weight of a T-bone steak