Stats Proposal Description of Topic
Context: There is a disproportion of breast cancer treatment among women of color. African American women are more prone to get breast cancer than White Caucasian women. Many people don’t know about the issue and I want to inform them.
Question: Does knowing about an issue influence the SOJO seniors to do something about it?
The parameter of interest is SOJO seniors. My Ho:µ1-µ2=0 where it means that there is no significant difference if a person knows about the issue or not. My Ha:µ1-µ2>0 where it means that people do show to care more after knowing about the issue. In this case µ1 is the mean amount willingness for people to take action before they know about the breast cancer issue and µ2 is the mean amount willingness for people to take action after knowing about the breast cancer issue.
Description of Statistic
Explanatory Variable: Giving them facts about the issue (categorical)
Response Variable: Willingness to advocate for the issue (quantitative)
I will conduct a matched pairs T-test. I have chosen a matched pairs T-test because I am matching the students to themselves and I want to see if there is a difference after informing them about the issue. A paired t test will show if there is a difference when people know more about an issue.
Description of Data Collection Process
The 10 seniors were chosen randomly using Table D. The seniors were sorted alphabetically and given a number from 01-80 and using Table D 8 numbers were chosen. I had to reduce bias by choosing five girls and five boys randomly to get a concrete conclusion and avoid if the gender role plays a role in this. I chose 8 seniors because there are 80 seniors and 8 seniors do meet the 10% condition.
Normal: n<30 so we would need to check for strong skewness
Random: The seniors were randomly chosen
Independent: 8(10) =80 There is 80 seniors so this does meet the 10%condition.
Context: There is a disproportion of breast cancer treatment among women of color. African American women are more prone to get breast cancer than White Caucasian women. Many people don’t know about the issue and I want to inform them.
Question: Does knowing about an issue influence the SOJO seniors to do something about it?
The parameter of interest is SOJO seniors. My Ho:µ1-µ2=0 where it means that there is no significant difference if a person knows about the issue or not. My Ha:µ1-µ2>0 where it means that people do show to care more after knowing about the issue. In this case µ1 is the mean amount willingness for people to take action before they know about the breast cancer issue and µ2 is the mean amount willingness for people to take action after knowing about the breast cancer issue.
Description of Statistic
Explanatory Variable: Giving them facts about the issue (categorical)
Response Variable: Willingness to advocate for the issue (quantitative)
I will conduct a matched pairs T-test. I have chosen a matched pairs T-test because I am matching the students to themselves and I want to see if there is a difference after informing them about the issue. A paired t test will show if there is a difference when people know more about an issue.
Description of Data Collection Process
The 10 seniors were chosen randomly using Table D. The seniors were sorted alphabetically and given a number from 01-80 and using Table D 8 numbers were chosen. I had to reduce bias by choosing five girls and five boys randomly to get a concrete conclusion and avoid if the gender role plays a role in this. I chose 8 seniors because there are 80 seniors and 8 seniors do meet the 10% condition.
Normal: n<30 so we would need to check for strong skewness
Random: The seniors were randomly chosen
Independent: 8(10) =80 There is 80 seniors so this does meet the 10%condition.