This assignment has two posts:
1. Course Project: MTH 241 Statistics
Course Project
Due: Final Exam Day
Description:
The Database of UVA students (on Blackboard) contains information on the undergraduate
students at University of Virginia. This list contains the data for different Qualitative and
Quantitative variable. Your project is to obtain the results based on the following questions using
StatCrunch.
Copy the StatCrunch results (graph plus answer) into your solutions document.
1. Obtain the mean and the standard deviation for ACT Math score for all class levels.
2. Obtain the five number summary of ACT Math score for all class levels. Do any of these class
levels have outliers? If yes, then which class level has outlier?
3. Obtain Histogram, box plot and normal probability plot for each ACT Math score for all class
level. What interpretation can you make for each of these class levels? Which one looks more
approximately normal?
4. Obtain and interpret a 95% confidence interval for the mean ACT Math score for each class
level. (Note: You could use the mean and standard deviation obtained from part 1.)
Requirements:
1. Type your name/group members on your paper.
2. Number your pages across your entire solutions document.
3. Use complete and coherent sentences to answer the questions. Typed (10‐12pt font), doublespaced,
1 inch margins.
4 Generate all requested graphs using StatCrunch.
5. Title and label all of your graphs “correctly”
6. Discuss how has this project helped you understand the purpose and value of the study of
statistics?
2. Performance Management Plan
Paper details:
Performance Management Plan Throughout this unit, we discussed the importance of the performance management process and the steps involved. For this assignment, you will create your own performance management plan that includes answers to the following questions:
Describe how learning and management strategies impact strategic performance management processes?
How would you describe your company and employees? For example, what products or services does your company offer, and what tasks do your employees complete?
How will you assess employees? (For example, will you use performance appraisals? Will you rank employees?)
How will you provide feedback? What type of feedback will you provide?
How will you reward the top employees? How will you handle low-performing employees?
For each of the above bullets, explain how you will address that aspect of the performance management plan using details and examples. You will complete your plan using a template.
Please open the template, complete your assignment and save the document, and then submit it. To access the template for this assignment, click here.
