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Categorical Analysis Worksheet

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Using the spreadsheets and data that was available within the course materials of this class, I was able to compute a categorical analysis on the different majors of the students that are enrolled in the MBA program. The data involves information derived from two-hundred students found at Whatsamattu University. The majors that are available for the MBA program at this university that these two-hundred students are taking includes Finance, Marketing, Leadership, and those that are not majoring in anything that is considered to be listed as "No Major". Since we are looking at majors of students and not their individual GPA's, we would use a categorical analysis versus a numerical analysis. "When one works with categorical data, it is possible …show more content…

According to my calculations, there are a total of sixty-one students that are not majoring in a specific concentration. However, fifty-one of the students are interested and majoring in Finance. Twenty-five of the total students are focusing their attention on the subject of Marketing and there are sixty-three students studying Leadership. In order to find the percentages of each one, you would take the total number of the major and divide that amount by two-hundred. For example, the students that do not have a major is 30.5%. This is the result you should receive when you take the total number of students that are listed as No Major, 61, and divide that by 200, giving you 0.305 which you will convert to 30.5%. You would do the same computations for each categorical variable. Therefore, 25.5% of students make up the Finance major, 12.5% of students are showing as Marketing as their major, and 31.5% of students are interested in …show more content…

The next would be those that have chosen No Major. Then you have the Finance major leading you to the less interested major, being Marketing. These amounts are quite shocking to me because I didn't think there would be so many students enrolled that did not choose a specific major. When I was enrolled as an undergraduate student, a lot of my peers were unsure of what to do or become when the time came to "grow up". I chose the inevitable Business Management degree because that was really all I knew that I should take in hopes of finding a career later on down the road. "Galotti and Kozberg (1987) reported that students at a midwestern liberal arts college listed the following factors most frequently as ones that they used in choosing a major: "How much I care for the subject" (79%), "Something I do well in" (54%), "Something with good career opportunities" (46%), and "What I want to do with this major after college" (32%)" (Galotti, 1999, pg. 379). I would like to think that is how we view potential college majors now, but the job market is so difficult that I can understand why a large portion of students are not in a certain major and are just figuring out what they love along the

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