Sunday, 21 July 2013

SBD lecture no. 9 &10(20 July 2013)

In today's lecture we learnt how to work on retail stores data. We learnt how to process data and the different relations between various variables


variable view of the data.


The classification of variables is as follows-
Nominal -  It is the lowest level of data measurement . These numbers don't have any meaning . These can only be used to classify or categorize .
Ordinal - It is the second level of data measurement . These numbers can be used to rank or order objects.

Next we learnt the concept of crosstabs-
Crosstabs-In statistics, a "crosstab" is another name for a contingency table, which is a type of table created by crosstabulation. In survey research (e.g., polling, market research), a "crosstab" is any table showing summary statistics. Commonly, crosstabs in survey research are concatenations of multiple different tables.


This is how we do crosstab.
Analyse -> Descriptive Statistics -> Crosstabs




After examining the distribution of each of the variables, the researcher’s next task is to look
for relationships among two or more of the variables. Some of the tools that may be used
include correlation and regression, or derivatives such as the t-test, analysis of variance, and
contingency table (crosstabulation) analysis. The type of analysis chosen depends on the
research design, characteristics of the variables, shape of the distributions, level of measurement,
and whether the assumptions required for a particular statistical test are met.
crosstabulation is a joint frequency distribution of cases based on two or more categorical
variables. Displaying a distribution of cases by their values on two or more variables is
known as contingency table analysis and is one of the more commonly used analytic methods
in the social sciences


Assumptions: The assumptions for chi-square include:
1. Random sampling is not required, provided the sample is not biased. However, the best
way to insure the sample is not biased is random selection.
2. Independent observations. A critical assumption for chi-square is independence of observations.
One person’s response should tell us nothing about another person’s response.
Observations are independent if the sampling of one observation does not affect the choice
of the second observation. (In contrast, consider an example in which the observations are
not independent. A researcher wishes to estimate to what extent students in a school engage
in cheating on tests and homework. The researcher randomly chooses one student to interview.
At the completion of the interview the researcher asks the student for the name of a
friend so that the friend can be interviewed, too).
3. Mutually exclusive row and column variable categories that include all observations.
The chi-square test of association cannot be conducted when categories overlap or do not
include all of the observations.
4. Large expected frequencies. The chi-square test is based on an approcimation that works
best when the expected frequencies are fairly large. No expected frequency should be less
than 1 and no more than 20% of the expected frequencies should be less than 5.
Hypotheses The null hypothesis is the classifications are independent (i.e., no relationship between
classifications). The alternative hypothesis is that the classifications are dependent (i.e.,
that a relationship or dependency exists).


Next we learned about Null Hypothesis and CHI-Square

The null hypothesis in cross tab says that there is no relationship between the two variables we are testing.

Significance value - < 0.05 reject
                              > 0.05 accept


When it is more than 0.05 we accept it and it means there is no relation between the two variables.


Then we did the correlation of various satisfactions.


If the correlation value is high then if one variable is high than other correlation variable is also high.

When the numbers get low, stop analysis.
For any deep analysis take big sample space.

Submitted by-
Pranav Sharma (2013206)

Group Members-
Payal Singh
Nupur Mandhyan
Omkar 
Radhika Agarwall

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