Essay Life is a Beach: Surf, Sunshine, Safety, Booze and Statistics – Statistics Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Question 1: Conceptual hypothesis 
Using this study’s research question identified above, please write an overarching conceptual hypothesis for this study.
                        
Questions 2-6: Inferential statistics
For questions 2-6 below, please carry out the appropriate statistical procedures to answer each question using SPSS. For each test, please be sure to include an appropriate operational hypothesis, provide clear evidence and justifications for each decision made using the five steps of statistical hypothesis testing, and be sure to report and interpret your findings, following the scholarly conventions discussed in class.  Also be sure to include the SPSS Output that you think is required to complete the question.  These can be included as Appendices after the body of your Assignment.  

Question 2 
From your experience surveying beachgoers, you have a suspicion that the frequency of beach attendance might be associated with self-reported water safety knowledge. Specifically, you think that those who visit the beach less frequently might also rate themselves as having poorer water safety knowledge. (HINT: Please assess frequency using at least three levels.)
Please describe your process for conducting the test and tell us what you find.        

Question 3 
You are also interested to know whether there is a difference in the self-reported water safety knowledge between the locals (Queensland residents), interstate tourists, and international tourists. Please describe your process for conducting the test and tell us what you find.                                

Question 4
You think that beachgoers’ age might be associated with the number of days they drink alcohol per year, which in turn could influence the likelihood they visit the beach intoxicated. So you decide to determine whether beachgoers’ age can be used to predict the number of days per year they drink alcohol. For this test, your non-statistically inclined boss has asked that you simply assume the data for age and number of drinking days per year are normally distributed.  
In your report to your boss, please include:

• A description of your process for conducting the test(s) and tell us what you find (as per the instructions above).
• A comment about any implications or potential sources of error that may have arisen as a result of assuming the data are normally distributed.

Question 5 
You are asked to appear on Sunrise to talk about your results. This astutely statistically-inclined host (David Koch!) asks you: Do male beachgoers have a higher BAC than female beachgoers? 

Luckily you brought your laptop with you and can quickly determine the answer during the advertisements. For the report you write for your boss, you describe your process for conducting the test and tell us what you find (as per the instructions above). 

Question 6 
There is a flurry of comment on social media after your TV appearance. The public is interested in the relationships you explored between tourist status and self-reported water safety knowledge (from Q3), but question whether beachgoers really know what they think they know. You are commissioned to determine whether beachgoers’ results from their water safety knowledge test (measured as Mean water safety knowledge) differs among QLD Residents, Interstate tourists and tourists from overseas.
Please describe your process for conducting the test and tell us what you find (as per the instructions above).

Question 7
You have now conducted a number of statistical tests to explore your overarching research question. Please write a summary statement about how the findings from each of your statistical analyses can contribute to your overarching research question and conceptual hypothesis. Be sure to interpret these findings within the context of any potential limitations or biases that could be present in this study.  When thinking on these limitations/biases, we only expect you to be citing information that has been covered in TM5516.