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Shadab Akram - Experimental Design Comprehensive

The document provides instructions for a paper assignment on experimental design. It includes 8 potential experiments and asks questions to analyze key aspects of experimental design for each, including the treatment, experimental units, sources of systematic and random error, and confounding factors. It also provides 4 additional questions on statistics, such as calculating means, standard deviations, and solving word problems. The deadline to submit answers is February 26, 2021 by 7:00 PM by email.

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Shadab Akram - Experimental Design Comprehensive

The document provides instructions for a paper assignment on experimental design. It includes 8 potential experiments and asks questions to analyze key aspects of experimental design for each, including the treatment, experimental units, sources of systematic and random error, and confounding factors. It also provides 4 additional questions on statistics, such as calculating means, standard deviations, and solving word problems. The deadline to submit answers is February 26, 2021 by 7:00 PM by email.

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(1) Attempt any Three (03) Questions, Question 1 is compulsory.


(2) This is an open book paper, therefore, you can consult any source that your may find useful
but your answers will be checked for plagiarism.
(3) Submit your Paper over here or email them to Email your answers to
[email protected] In the subject line writer, the following: Experimental Design
Comprehensive (Your Name)
(4) Your answers will not be accepted after 7:00 PM on February 26, 2021.
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Question 1: Read the following potential experiments and answer the questions below:
(20 Marks)
A. Compare the learning of MBA students under three teaching methodologies.
B. Does the recall of customers differ with different colors of packaging?
C. Compare the strengths of different brands of paper towel.
D. Do different leave policies give result in different attendance levels?
E. Compare the effects of different locations of a customer’s choice of retail outlet.
F. Do different aged workers have different productivity?
G. Compare the proportions of words remembered from lists of related or unrelated words, and
under various conditions such as silence and distraction.
H. Compare the effects of different colors of exam paper on students’ performance in an
examination.
For each of the above cases answer the following questions:
I) What is the treatment in each case?
II) What are the different potential experimental units?
III) How Systematic Error and Random Error can be introduced in the experiment?
IV) What can cause Confounding in the experiment?
V) What is the Primary Response and what can be the Surrogate Response?
Question 2: What is science? Are science and philosophy two different things? Why you need to
study the scientific method as a manager? (15 Marks)
Question 3: Answer the following questions: (15 Marks)
I) If the mean of numbers 28, x, 42, 78 and 104 is 62, what is the mean of 48, 62, 98, 124
and x?
II) The average weight of a group of 30 friends increases by 1 kg when the weight of their
football coach was added. If average weight of the group after including the weight of the
football coach is 31 kg, what is the weight of their football coach?
III) The average wages of a worker during a fortnight comprising 15 consecutive working
days was $90 per day. During the first 7 days, his average wages was $87/day and the
average wages during the last 7 days was $92 /day. What was his wage on the 8th day?
IV) The average age of a group of 10 students was 20. The average age increased by 2 years
when two new students joined the group. What is the average age of the two new students
who joined the group?
V) If the average of 5 positive integers is 40 and the difference between the largest and the
smallest of these 5 numbers is 10, what is the maximum value possible for the largest of
these 5 integers?
Question 4: Answer the following questions: (15 Marks)
I) The number of hours of sunshine was recorded daily in Stonehaven over the course of a
week. The results were as follows: 2.4, 3.4, 4.9, 4.0, 3.8, 3.8, 3.6. Find the standard
deviation of the data.
II) A random sample of matchboxes is checked. The total number of matches in the box are:
62, 62, 61, 57, 63. Calculate the standard deviation for this data.
III) Consider three students with the following distributions of 24 quiz scores:
Amanda: 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
Barney: 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 10
Charlene: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
a) Which student has the smallest standard deviation of quiz scores? Which student has
the largest standard deviation of quiz scores?

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