You will submit a final report, written in Word (or similar word processing software), APA format based on your findings and submissions from parts 1-4. It is highly suggested you not submit this paper without first reviewing all the feedback from your instructor on submissions from weeks 1-6. Be sure to ask any questions you may have on your feedback.
This final submission should be three paragraphs and summarize your entire project. It will be submitted through SafeAssign, Liberty’s Plagiarism software on BlackBoard. The project must be submitted in paragraph form and not just a list of the calculations from your project. Be sure your paragraphs flow (not just listing the answers to the questions, but complete sentences with transitions) and are written in third person. You are presenting your results to a nonstatistical audience, do not describe the calculations, describe your results. It should include the following:
- Paragraph 1:
· Brief summary of the article, including the source
§ Link for article: https://www.usnews.com/higher-education/online-education/articles/2017-04-04/us-news-data-the-average-online-bachelors-student
Link for article
· Define the population, sample, and statistic for the study
· Statement of the two claims in the article that were tested in this project
· Null and alternative hypothesis for both tests run for this project (in words)
- Paragraph 2 (address the claim about the mean):
· Summary of sample statistics (mean, standard deviation, median, quartiles, sample size)
· Confidence interval, along with interpretation of the confidence interval
· Description of hypothesis test (alpha, test statistic, p-value, conclusion, interpretation)
- Paragraph 3 (address the claim about the proportion):
· Summary of sample statistics (sample size, successes, proportion)
· Confidence interval, along with interpretation of the confidence interval
· Description of hypothesis test (alpha, test statistic, p-value, conclusion, interpretation)
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