statistics

CASE STUDY 2. IQStudents

Maria-Cristina Marinescu

Statistics 2023-2024

Business Administration and Management

PARTIAL SUBMISSION 22/3

FINAL SUBMISSION 31/3

CASE 2: IQStudents

Main questions What is the profile of undergraduate students at IQS School of

Management? What do they do, what are their main

characteristics, why did they choose their degree? What does all

this depend on?  Survey prepared by 1st year Marketing Degree students in 2019/20

VARIABLES AND SHORT NAMES (1)

VARIABLES AND SHORT NAMES (2)

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Collect, process, clean and analyse data

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QUESTIONS

ANSWERS

EXCEL and/or Rcmdr

REPORT

(1) Put short names to the variables See file Questions-Variables.pdf

(2) Look variable by variable

– Mistakes in the entries

– Too many black cells

– Missing values

– Duplicated answers

– Categorise (assign categories) the open questions

– …

– …

Preparing the Excel dataset

PARTIAL SUBMISSION 22/3:

1. Submit a mind map (bubbl.us) containing questions

emerged in your group, as a PDF on Moodle

2. Submit a “clean” Excel file:

– Data in sheet 1

– An explanation of the modifications you applied in to clean

in sheet 2

Posing questions about the data

• Frontpage

• Index

• QA mind map (e.g. bubbl.us)

• (1) Questions you find interesting

• (2) Graphics and numerical descriptions that answer

the questions

• …

• New questions

– …which you could not ask before the case study

– … and about the results obtained or the statistical analyses

performed

FINAL SUBMISSION 31/3

LATE SUBMISSIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED

• Team members’ roles – Coordinator: distributes the work and controls the time schedule

– Communicator: takes notes, interacts with the teachers and/or

other teams, submits the proposal on Moodle

– Analysts: assume the responsibility of the description and

analyses accuracy

– Other (specify)

• Participation of each member (e.g.):

• Team work organisation – Brief description of the process,

difficulties found and strategies

to overcome them

FINAL SUBMISSION

EXAMPLE % participation

Member 1 30%

Member 2 20%

Member 3 40%

Member 4 10%

• PowerPoint file saved as a pdf

– Do not use small fonts: the document will be read online

– Pay attention to the presentation: front page, index, structure,

etc.

– Include a caption for all graphs and tables, numbering them:

E.g. Figure 4. Relationship between Boarding place and class

– In the comments, refer to the graphs and tables by their

number: “As we can see in figure 4, …”

• A report to be read

– Include all comments on the pages

– Never present a table or graph without comments

– Avoid repetitions and “copy-pasting”: make general comments

and specify for the different cases

FORMAT