QSO-510: 3-2 Final Project Milestone One: Introduction and Analysis Plan

You will submit a paper that describes the scenario provided in the final project case study, identifies quantifiable factors that may affect operational performance, develops a problem statement, and proposes a strategy for resolving a company's problem.

·         Read the Brief Case on pages 685 and 686, of Chapter 19

·         Review the StatCrunch resource in MyStatLab. You will access the QSO 510 data set, save to your computer, and upload the data set spreadsheet into StatCrunch. Here is a resource to access StatCrunch tutorials.

·         You will calculate the central tendency for the dependent variable, develop a histogram of the gift amount and develop scatterplots for the gift amount for each independent variable.

·         You can save your calculations. Here is a Saving, Copying, Printing, and Downloading Results PDF with the directions for saving, copying, printing, and downloading results.

Chapter 19 Building Multiple Regression Models (Bolliger and Mabillard)

 

Statistical Analysis sample draft for the Report

Introduction

The paper will present a statistical report that describes the scenario provided in the final project case study (chapter 19, pg. 685-686).The report will also focus on identifying the quantifiable factors that may affect operational performance by analyzing the qso510 dataset. The analysis entailed calculating the central tendency for the dependent variable from the dataset using StatCrunch. The data was also used to construct a histogram of the gift amount and scatterplots for the gift amount for each independent variable.

Based on the information provided, the company was facing a problem of performance of operational processes.Thus, the results from the analysis will also be used to develop a problem statement, and propose a strategy for resolving the problem facing the company.

 

Analysis plan
 
Valuables based on the donors Zip code

 

MALEVET (% Male veterans)

V1FTVETS (% Vietnam Veterans)

WWIIVETS (% VVWII veterans)

LOCALGOV (% Employed by local government)

STATEGOV (% Employed by state government)

FEDGOV (% Employed by federal government)

Variables specific to the individual donor

HOMEOWNER (N = No; Y = Yes) HIT (Number of times donor has responded to mail order offers other than PVAls)

CARDPROM (Number of card promotions received lifetime)

MAXADATE (Date of most recent promotion received in YYMM Year Month format) N1JMPROM (Number of promotions received lifetime)

CARDPRM12 (Number of card promonon)

NUMPRM12 (Number of promotions received in last 12 months)

NGIFTALL (Number of gifts given lifetime to date)

CARDGIFT (Number of gifts to card promotions given lifetime to date)