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Inferential Statistics and Findings

University of Phoenix

Gibran Rezavi

June 22, 2015

Inferential Statistics and Findings

In the Week 2 Business Research Project Part 1 assignment, our Team has identified the Samuel Adams Brewery as the company of interest for research. The Samuel Adams Brewery began in a kitchen with an old family recipe and using the name of an American patriot. The long award winning history of the brewery is now a household name being sold not only in restaurants but in grocery stores and other retail locations. Our Team A has created a research question and described a scenario on how this will affect the Samuel Adams Brewery.

Research Question

Our research question is: Is there a correlation between the number of drunken driving accidents and the alcohol tax rate?

Null hypothesis: The number of drunken driving accidents and the alcohol tax rate are not correlated.

Alternative hypothesis: The number of drunken driving accidents and the alcohol tax rate are correlated.

We conduct a regression analysis in Excel (See Table 1 in Appendix). The results were significant, r(7)=.887, p< .05. The null hypothesis was rejected, and we conclude that there is a correlation between the number of drunken driving accidents and the alcohol tax rate.

Reference

Anderson, D.R., Sweeney, D.J., Williams, T.A., Camm, J.D., & Cochran, J.J. (2015). Essentials of statistics for business and economics. (7th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.

Tax Foundation. (2013, April). State Excise Rates on Spirits, 2007-2013. Retrieved June 07, 2015, from Tax Foundation: taxfoundation.org/article/state-excise-tax-rates-2007-2013

https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/safety/crash_data/crash_facts/crash_facts_14.pdf

Appendix

1) Data on number of crashes and alcohol tax rates

2) Regression analysis

Table 1