STA630 Current FinalTerm Paper 22 February 2018 | FALL 2017 |

STA630 Current FinalTerm Paper 22 February 2018 | FALL 2017 |

STA630 Paper today.

Ahmad is conducting a research on women entrepreneurs in Lahore. He is about to select the sample but is confused about some terminologies. Help him to understand the difference between population and target population with help of example.

While constructing code book, there are two basic rules to be followed; mutually exclusive and exhaustive. What do you understand by both terms? Explain answer with example.

Researchers argue that summary statistic specifically; average/mean, of the responses become deceptive as it might not show the true picture. In what situations average/mean may misrepresent the data? Support answer with the help of example.

An executive summary serves two purposes of a report. Mention these purposes.
While conducting a survey research, experts advise students to avoid leading questions in questionnaire as it may affect the response. What do you understand by leading questions? Explain with example.

A researcher wants to study impact of “knowledge management on employee performance”. Researcher wants to take data from organizations located in each provincial capital of Pakistan. For this purpose, researcher firstly develops an accurate sampling frame of each group (based on provincial city) and then chooses respondents on the basis of simple random sampling.

Identify type of sampling (Probability or Non-Probability) and sampling technique.

Following scale has been used to measure the concept of job satisfaction:

Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree
1 2 3 4 5

You are required to Identify the scale, give rationale for choice and briefly explain the characteristics of the scale.
A researcher wanted to check the applicability of model for increasing “crisis management team`s performance”. Respondents included crisis management team’s members of organization located in Faisalabad (an industrial city of Pakistan). Researcher had to contact with firms by using hit & trial method and get information about the existence of “crisis management team” and if such team existed then he distributed questionnaire in that organization. Only 10% of the population was contacted
Is “Letter of Transmittal” important for all kinds of researches? Why or why not.

A researcher distributed questionnaire for taking response from school teachers in order to measure their satisfaction level. He/she collected the responses through email. On examining the responses, researcher came to know that some questionnaires have unanswered questions.