A group of female workers have come to the human resources manager, Mr. Kevin Ladd of M&T Engineering threatening to bring a lawsuit based on gender inequities in salary. They are using the statistical results below in support of their contention. T
Learning Project #2
Due on Moodle at 5:00 pm, Friday, December 12, 2014
No late work accepted
This is worth up to 5 extra credit percentage points on the final exam. Construct complete statistical analysis with appropriate hypothesis tests as needed which correctly answer the two questions listed below and write a paragraph summarizing the results of your statistical analysis with a recommendation to the human resources manager. Perform your statistical analyses in JMP. You may work in pairs but there may be NO DISCUSSION outside your pair.
A group of female workers have come to the human resources manager,
Mr. Kevin Ladd of M&T Engineering threatening to bring a lawsuit based on gender inequities in salary. They are using the statistical results below in support of their contention.
The human resources manager does not believe their claim is valid. However, he must have statistical evidence. You have been asked to provide this evidence by answering the two questions below.
1. Is there a difference in salary among job types?
2. Is there evidence of a relationship between job type and gender?
The HR manager gives you data on 49 randomly selected employees located in a file called M&TEng.xlsx (located in Moodle).The following variables are available: salary= weekly salary in dollars
jobtype: e=engineer, t=technical worker, c=clerical
gender: m=male, f=female