Week 4 assignment
Assignment: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis:
Confidence Intervals
In your Week 2 Assignment, you displayed data based on a
categorical variable and continuous variable from a specific dataset. In Week
3, you used the same variables as in Week 2 to perform a descriptive analysis
of the data. For this Assignment, you will calculate a confidence interval in
SPSS for one of the variables from your Week 2 and Week 3 Assignments.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review the Learning Resources related to probability,
sampling distributions, and confidence intervals.
Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or
the High School Longitudinal Study dataset (whichever you chose) from Week 2.
Choose an appropriate variable from Weeks 2 and 3 and
calculate a confidence interval in SPSS.
Once you perform your confidence interval, review Chapter 5
and 11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into
your Word document.
For this Assignment:
Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your results and
include a copy and paste of the appropriate visual display of the data into
your document.
Based on the results of your data in this confidence
interval Assignment, provide a brief explanation of what the implications for
social change might be.
By Day 7
Submit your Introduction to Quantitative Analysis:
Confidence Intervals Assignment.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading,
do the following:
Please save your Assignment using the naming convention
“WK4Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 4 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading
Criteria for the Assignment.
Click the Week 4 Assignment link. You will also be able to
“View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My
Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK4Assgn+last name+first
initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the
checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
