APPLIED STATISTICS (SQQS2013) GROUP PROJECT (20%) INSTRUCTIONS 1. 2. Form a group with a maximum THREE (3) members.

The report must be consists of: a) Cover sheet with: i. Color: LIGHT BLUE A4 PAPER. ii. Information: - Course group (A, B, or O). - Matric number in ascending (smallest to largest) followed by the name of group members. - Lecturers name. - Date of submission. b) Table of Contents. c) Answer sheet: - Use SPSS to analyze the data. - Report must be in handwriting EXCEPT the SPSS output. - Enclose your random data. - Enclose the appropriate and useful SPSSs output to support your answer. d) References list at least TWO reference books. e) Binding: tape or ring WITHOUT plastic cover. Submit the soft copy of your data together with your report. The due date: 06 December 2012 (THURSDAY)

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The data is about the wages and wage earners with the following variables. Variable name idnumber Wage 2007 Wage 2012 Industry Description Respondent id Annual wage (RM) in year 2007 Annual wage (RM) in year 2012 1 Manufacturing 2 Construction 3 Transportation and Telecommunication 0 Other 1 Management 2 Sales 3 Clerical 4 Service 5 Education 0 Others Years of education 1 Malay 2 Chinese 3 Indian 0 Others 1 Yes 0 No Years of work experience 1 Yes 0 No Age in years 1 Pension 2 KWSP

Occupation

Education Race

Female Experience Married Age Scheme

INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Refer to data set given, Wages.sav, randomly select 80% of it to analyze. Procedures to randomly select the sample are as follow. Click Data Choose Select cases Select Random sample of cases and click Sample For sample size, choose Exactly 80 cases from the first 100 cases then Continue At Output, choose Copy selected cases to a new data set. Give a name to a new data set. Then OK.

2. Choose appropriate variables to conduct the necessary statistical analysis. State your objective clearly for each analysis.

3. Assume your data is approximately normally distributed.

4. Your analysis must include the following estimations/tests. a. b. c. d. e. f. Confidence interval for one population mean. Interpret your result. Confidence interval for mean difference. Interpret your result. t-test for one sample t-test for independent sample t-test for paired sample ANOVA. Conduct the multiple comparison tests if applicable. If not applicable, state your reason. g. Chi-square test (Independence test) (Use = 0.05 for all analysis)

Example of answer

Objective: To test whether the mean sales is equal to 40 Variable: Sales

One-Sample Test

Handwriting

Test Value = 40 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference Lower 1.25 Upper 3.76

Sales

t 3.917

df 915

Sig. (2tailed) .000

Mean Differe nce 2.504

SPSS output

H0: = 40 p = 0.000 Reject H0

vs <

H1: 40 = 0.05

Handwriting

We have enough evidence to conclude that the mean sales are not equal to 40.