COMM 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Contingency Table, Confidence Interval, Box Plot
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Report uploading deadline: december 8, 2015, before 23h59. An organization is interested in conducting a study of the factors that help explain absenteeism among its production employees. After reviewing the literature on absenteeism and interviewing several employees and production supervisors, a researcher in charge of the project defined the variables, and for a random sample of 77 employees, data were collected. The other variables are considered possible explanatory variables. The goal of the study is to identify factors that influence absenteeism and to develop an appropriate model to explain it. The following links give some write-ups on issues of absenteeism in the workplace. http://www. statcan. gc. ca/pub/75-001-x/2012002/article/11650-eng. htm http://www. cbc. ca/news/canada/story/2012/06/20/pol-weston-absenteeism-public-service- why. html http://www. investopedia. com/articles/personal-finance/070513/causes-and-costs- absenteeism. asp http://www. workforceinstitute. org/wp-content/themes/revolution/docs/absenteeism-bottom- Number of distinct occasions worker is absent (absentees for one or more days) Absentcat absence category: leone if zero or one absence; two if 2 absences; 3to6 if 3 to 6 absences. Complexity of job category: low if index 33%, standard if 34 index 70, high if.
