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STATISTICS PROJECT PROPOSAL

Rachel Urvina

Rasmussen College

This paper is being submitted on July 31, 2016, for George Allmand’s G310 Advanced Statistics Course

Topic: I plan to investigate if there is any difference between the average number of hours per week that men and women exercise. I will survey two groups one group will consist of women while the other will consist of men. This topic will help in improving my skills on carrying out surveys in order to come up with the results. The main aim of my study is to be able to come up with data consisting of two groups both male and female, which I will use in carrying out investigations in order to come up with my conclusion whether there is any difference between the average number of hours per week that men and women exercise.

.Population represented:

Men aged between 20 to 50 years (approximately 70 in number)

Women aged between 20 to 50 years (approximately 70 in number)

Variables:

Gender: categorical, male or female

Height: quantitative

Weight: quantitative

Age: quantitative

Amount of time spent on exercise each day: quantitative.

The data will be collected through a survey which will involve self-administered questionnaire, which will contain closed questions and open ended questions where one will be free to answer any question according to his/her knowledge without limitations.

The sample of my survey paper will be as follows:

1. What is your gender?

· Male

· female

2. Please indicate your height in figures

……………………………………………………………

3. Please indicate your weight in figures

……………………………………………….........

4. What is your age (please indicate a specific number and not a range)?

…………………………………………………………………………………..

5. What is your average time per day spent on exercise?

……………………………………………………………………..

I will use random sampling as my sampling strategy since it will reduce the bias in selecting the sample that will represent the whole population.

Statistical methods:

I will use t-Test to examine the Significance of the Difference between the Means of Two Independent Samples that is both the male and female groups.

The hypothesis to be tested is:

Null hypothesis: there is a difference between the average number of hours per week that men and women exercise.

Alternate hypothesis: there is no difference between the average number of hours per week that men and women exercise

The assumptions to be made are:

(i) That the two samples are randomly drawn from normally distributed populations

(ii) That the measures of which the two samples are composed of equal-interval. 

From the analysis, I will be able to determine if there is any difference between the average number of hours per week that men and women exercise, and come up with a conclusion for my null hypothesis whether to accept or reject it.