Write up your findings per the organization provided at the end of this document. Also refer to the rubric on Canvas.

Introduction

Most of IEE 380 is spent reading problems from the text and applying the methods and techniques of the class. Data is provided for you in the problems. However, as working analysts, you may have to collect or generate data. Sometimes this data collection is more time consuming and challenging than the actual statistical analyses that follow.In this project, you will collect data and perform a test of hypothesis on the population mean, variance unknown.

Objectives

The objectives of this project are to (a) provide students with data collection experience, (b) give students a realistic statistical data analysis experience, (d) improve students’ technical writing skills. As you complete this project, you might have objectives of your own.

Directions

1. Collect at least 50 observations from a data source of your choice.The observations you collect may be discrete data or continuous data but cannot be categorical in nature. You can generate or collect the observations yourselves, but you may not use mass emailing to the class to do so. You can obtain the data from internet sites, but you must include where you collected the data from as a reference.

2. Before doing any computations, determine a null and alternative hypothesis on the population mean of the data. You can select the values you are testing on arbitrarily, or you can select values based on some previous knowledge. As an example, suppose your data was the price of a 2021Kia Soul from 50 dealerships around the country. Your null and alternative hypotheses might be:

H0:  = $17,000

H1:  > $17,000

The direction of the alternative hypothesis is left up to you.

3. Write up your findings per the organization provided at the end of this document. Also refer to the rubric on Canvas.

4. Upload your report to the project submission link in the Project folder on Canvas no later than 11:59 pm on Sunday, November 27th, 2022.You must upload a Word document. No pdfs or other file types. Late submissions will not be accepted under any condition.

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