STAT PROJECT
The Problem
Statement of the Problem: Universities and colleges need to understand their students. One of the many questions that University administrators want to know is which students will perform best in their University. The University wants to admit students who are expected to perform well. They want to make sure that students who are admitted have some reason to believe that they will do well in their school. The MIDWEST SCHOLASTIC DATA has been collected to help administrators answer this question. However, there are many other questions that could be posed and answered based on this data. Some of these may also be of great interest to the administration.
The Data
Your data, The MIDWEST SCHOLASTIC DATA file, contains a number of variables. The database contains information on all undergraduate students at the University of West Erlham County (UWEC). Thirteen variables are considered for each student. The variables are: sex (SEX), high school percentile (HSP), cumulative college grade point average (GPA), age (AGE), total college credits earned (CREDITS), classification (CLASS), school/college enrollment (COLLEGE), primary major (MAJOR), out-of-state or local residency, a variable used to calculate tuition cost (RESIDENCY), admission type (TYPE), ACT English score (ENGLISH), ACT Math score (MATH), and ACT composition (writing) score (COMP). Your instructor will make this data available to you through his/her Blackboard Course Site.
3. Part C: Plan for the Analysis
Pick AT LEAST 12 pairs of variables and discuss why each pair might give you information that could be helpful for the Administration. For each pair, pose an interesting question that a comparison might answer. You are not comparing variables in this part of the project, you are simply thinking about how they might give you useful information. As a thinking person, given your understanding of the variables, you have an idea of what you MIGHT find. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE INFORMATION from previous parts of the project. The last paragraph of this write-up should contain a list of the 6 most important pairs of variables IN YOUR OPINION for further investigation. Give a clear justification for choosing those 6 pairs. This part of the project should be 4 – 8 pages. This part of the document is all text, no graphs. You could insert a table if that makes your presentation clearer.