Assignment:
Assessment Question - Research Report
Choose a topic from the list given below and do a research in which you need to apply your understanding of the managerial statistics theories and concepts which you have learned in class. Your research should accompany with an EXAMPLE and it should relate to the topic chosen.
Your discussion should be concise, thoughtful and relevant. Please take note this is not a Business Research Method paper and hence your focus should be based on the topic chosen below.
You are required to prepare a written report and research report should include one topic from the following list:
• Sampling Methods and Designs
• Chi-square Test
• Multicollinearity
• Skewness & Kurtosis
• Correlation and Linear Regression
• Analysis of Variance
The purpose of assignment is to give you an opportunity to apply relevant theories and concepts of Managerial Statistics to an issue in an organisation. You must support your discussion with relevant findings in literature. That is, your opinions and statements need to be substantiated with evidence from readings, literature, models, textbook, and other forms of literature reviewed.
Care should be taken to link your selected topics together. Literature must be appropriated referenced in Harvard style. Direct quotes must be page referenced and cited accordingly. Whichever topics you choose, the report should be presented in essay style including the following sections: introduction, literature review, and conclusions. It should be appropriately referenced in accordance with the Harvard style and should include only those references referred to in the body of the essay. Sources of diagrams and direct quotes should be page referenced and cited accordingly.
You should fully utilize the managerial statistics concepts/models examined in the module to assist you in your analysis in all parts of the assignment.