{"id":33362,"date":"2024-09-25T03:12:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/week-6-discussion-topic-fa24-world-bank-data-set-descriptive-statistics-and-sample-descriptions\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T03:12:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:12:47","slug":"week-6-discussion-topic-fa24-world-bank-data-set-descriptive-statistics-and-sample-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/week-6-discussion-topic-fa24-world-bank-data-set-descriptive-statistics-and-sample-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6 Discussion Topic Fa24: World Bank Data Set Descriptive Statistics and Sample Descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Week 6&nbsp;Discussion&nbsp;Topic:<\/strong>&nbsp;World Bank Data Set Descriptive Statistics and Sample Descriptions<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">This week&#8217;s discussion topic allows you to continue with the second step in completing your Term Research Project for the course. &nbsp;In Week 6, you will complete the Quantitative Results, which should include your descriptive statistics as well as your correlation matrix from last week.&nbsp; Once you have a suitable sample free of outliers and correlation issues, then you can test your hypothesized relationships using the same sample data to perform a multiple regression analysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The Week 6 video, should enable you to perform this calculation with ease.&nbsp; In the video, I go through all steps from downloading the data, through the descriptives, creating the correlation matrix, and testing the hypotheses.&nbsp; As such, the video is a bit repetitive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">For this assignment, complete the Week 6 Word Document.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;Complete all calculations using the Excel Data Analysis Toolpak, and save all your work on separate tabs as shown in the Week 6 Discussion Video.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">You may continue with the Week 5 documents and simply rename them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Be sure to upload attach both documents.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Poppins, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;;\">&nbsp;The full instructions from the previous weeks are listed below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Please keep all of your quantitative work on ONE excel book that you download from World Bank.<\/u>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Thenoriginal data that you download, your cleaned data, your meta-data that was included in the download, and your calculations should all be included.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Poppins, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;;\">Next, document the total countries that were included for all series in your dataset.&nbsp; You do not have to list this number for each series since each may be different; just count the number of observations in your initial table.&nbsp; Then, filter out the missing data as I showed you in the videos.&nbsp; Once you have applied \u201clistwise deletion\u201d for all missing data, note how many were removed.&nbsp; Follow this up with your treatment for outliers.&nbsp; For simplicity, you might want to just address anything more than 3 standard deviations away from the mean.&nbsp; Note how many outliers here noted and how the sample was affected. Make sure that you retained at least 75 observations for your final sample size.&nbsp; If not, find replace variables with missing data with series that have higher response rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">***Please<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>note that you should not list every single country \u2013 I don\u2019t want to read that any more than you want to write it.&nbsp; A simple statement like this one will be fine: \u201cThe measurement items were obtained from the Word Bank with 162 countries included in the dataset.&nbsp; Outliers and missing items were treated using listwise deletion.&nbsp; A total of 26 countries were purged due to missing data, reducing the sample size to 136.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">***Make<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>sure that you retained at least 75 observations for your final sample size.&nbsp; If not, find&nbsp; variables with a lot of missing data and replace with series that have higher response rates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Finally, do the calculations for your correlation matrix in the Results section.&nbsp;&nbsp; You should write that first paragraph up and include the correlation matrix as a table for this week\u2019s discussion. &nbsp;From here, you can easily go ahead and run your regression if you want, but you can wait until the final paper to format and write up the results and provide a brief discussion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">***You<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>will want to do your calculation for descriptives and your correlation matrix before you start writing all this up.&nbsp; Make sure that you do not have to change variables due to low responses or multicollinearity. You don\u2019t want to have to write all of this multiple times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Attached is a link to a video explaining the assignment from the professor himself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SSjBOQnetjo<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Attached is the data set copleted in the previous weeks that will be updated in this weeks assingment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Attached&nbsp; is the word doc from last week that will need to be updated&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">attached is the sample format document for week 6&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 6&nbsp;Discussion&nbsp;Topic:&nbsp;World Bank Data Set Descriptive Statistics and Sample Descriptions This week&#8217;s discussion topic allows you to continue with the second step in completing your Term Research Project for the course. &nbsp;In Week 6, you will complete the Quantitative Results, which should include your descriptive statistics as well as your correlation matrix from last week.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[65],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=33362"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=33362"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=33362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}