Statistics - Applications Projects

Use the file P:/rconti/SPSS Files/GSS02PFP-A.sav (can also be accessed via Moodle) to answer the following

  1. Use the file P:/rconti/SPSS Files/GSS02PFP-A.sav (can also be accessed via Moodle) to answer the following concerning the relationship between the respondent’s education educ and the education received by his or her father, paeduc (only an SPSS solution will be accepted) :

  1. Construct a scatter plot of these two variables in SPSS, and place the best-fit linear regression line on the scatter plot.
  2. Use SPSS to find Pearson’s r , Pearson’s r- squared, and the regression equation predicting the respondent’s education with father’s education. Interpret your results.
  3. Using the regression equation from (b), calculate the predicted number of years of education for a person with a father with 14 years of education. .

  1. A survey of the entering MBA students at MSMC classified the gender of the students and the type of program as follows:
Type
Two-Year Evening Total
Men 116 66 182
Women 48 38 86
Total 164 104 268
  1. What percent of all MBA students are women?
  2. What percent of Two-Year MBA’s are women?
  3. What percent of Evening MBA’s are women?
  4. Do you see evidence of an association between the Type of MBA program and the percentage of women students? If so, why do you believe this might be true?
  1. Please note: Parts (a) and (b) are independent of each other!!!
  1. A criminologist developed a test to measure recidivism, where low scores indicated a lower probability of repeating the undesirable behavior. The test is normed so that it has a mean of 140 and standard deviation of 40.
  1. What is the Z score for a test score of 200?
  2. Using Appendix A in Kendrick, what percent of the scores fall between the mean (140) and Z?
  3. Using Appendix A in Kendrick, what percent of the scores are greater than Z?
  1. Data from a 2006 GSS subsample show that the mean number of children per respondent was 1.87, with a standard deviation of 1.64. A total of 1,494 people answered this question. Construct a confidence interval at the 95% level.
Price: $11.54
Solution: The downloadable solution consists of 6 pages, 554 words and 8 charts.
Deliverable: Word Document



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