MBA 825: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER

APPLICATION TO BUSINESS

1. Introduction
A written report on the Semester project is expected at the end of the semester.

This project is designed to test your knowledge of concepts taught, your creativity and
attempts at finding solutions in some interesting problems with practical applications.

The results of the project should be written up in the form of a scholarly manuscript as
described in the guidelines below. Please exercise great care to avoid plagiarism.
Plagiarism is the deliberate use of someone else's language, ideas, data, or other original
material that is not common knowledge without properly acknowledging the source.

You should also acquaint yourself with appropriate ways to acknowledge the
contributions of others and to cite all your sources. Plagiarism is a serious offence that
will be penalized.

2. Term Project
a. It is assumed that interest rates should be correlated with home prices. One
would expect that the higher the interest rates the more expense the price of
a home would be. Use the Regression tool in the Analysis ToolPak to compute
the correlation between the interest rates and home prices in the
accompanying excel file named “mba825 assignment” containing two excel
sheets. Use the excel sheet labelled interest rates and home prices and provide
answers to the following:

i. Compute the correlation coefficient (𝑟).

ii. What does this statistic mean concerning the relationship between
interest rates and home prices?
iii. What percent of the variability is accounted for by the relationship
between the two variables and what does this statistic mean? 𝑟 2
iv. What would be the slope and y-intercept for a regression line based on
this data?
b. Use the Two-factor ANOVA tool to provide the ANOVA table from the data in
T-ANOVA sheet. Answer the following:
i. Are there any significant main effects or an interaction effect.
ii. Interpret your answer
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3. Instruction and Guidelines for Preparing the Project Report

a. Every individual is expected to prepare his/her project report as follows:

TITLE PAGE: This page should contain:

1. Course Code and Title

2. Matriculation Number
3. Student Name
4. Course Mode
5. Session

CONTENT

INTRODUCTION: A short general description of Linear Regression and Correlation

including all relevant equations.

SOLUTION TO QUESTION 1:

SOLUTION TO QUESTION 2:

RESULTS DISCUSSION: Discuss the results obtained.

FORMAT

Each report should be prepared using the following format:

1. Font type should be Times New Roman

2. Report title should be font size 22pt
3. Heading 1 font size should be 16pt
4. Heading2 font size should be 14pt
5. Body of text font size should be 12pt

4. The report should be submitted on Tuesday 17th July 2018.

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