Business statistics including regression analysis and project management tools

by | Apr 24, 2018 | Data Analysis

This assignment is an individual assignment.
Your coursework consists of the following three tasks with tasks 1 and 2 based on the results of a survey. Some similar tasks will be performed in seminars with the tutors’ guidance. However, some parts of these tasks will require independent study.
As well as submitting the coursework as a word report for all three tasks you MUST also submit an excel spreadsheet containing the analysis which you have used in your word report.

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Assignment Brief

The file “Survey_Data_Sem2.xls” contains the data of an anonymous survey.
Click on the red triangles, within the spreadsheet, to see details of each variable.
The purpose of this report is to:
 Describe the sample
 Investigate whether factors such as gender, type of student and age influence the amount of exercise undertaken in a week.
The report should contain quantitative information, summary statistics and appropriate charts and tables.
The marking scheme is as follows:
 Report Structure and Presentation
o Introduction and summary [5 marks]
o Structure, layout, use of spell checker, charts and tables in text [5 marks]
o Conclusion [5 marks]
 Analysis
o Description of the data. [10 marks]
o Investigation of factors affecting the amount of exercise undertaken in a week. [10 marks]
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Use the survey data to conduct regression analysis to investigate the relationship between the time taken from the student’s accommodation to Coventry University and the time spent doing moderate or vigorous exercise per week.
1. Conduct linear regression analysis.
 Perform, using Excel, Data Analysis Pack, Regression function, the regression analysis
[5 marks]
2. Produce the scatterplot including a fitted regression line.
[5 marks]
3. Write the regression equation using the results of the excel table.
[4 marks]
4. Determine and interpret the slope [3 marks]
5. Determine and interpret the intercept.
[3 marks]
6. Determine and interpret the R-squared value. [5 marks]
7. Give predictions for the time spent on the internet when the time taken from student accommodation to Coventry University is:
a. 25 minutes [3 marks]
b. 35 minutes [3 marks]
8. Are the variables in your regression model statistically significant to your model? Give a justification for your answer. [4 marks]

Sample Solution

Sample solution

Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.