Graded Case Study Topic: Chapter 14 (Regression) Case Study: Severance Pay When one company buys another company, it is not unusual that some workers are terminated. The severance benefits offered to the laid-off workers are often the subject of dispute. Suppose that the Laurier Company recently bought the Western Company and subsequently terminated 20 of Western’s employees. As part of the buyout agreement, it was promised that the severance package offered to the former Western employees would be equivalent to those offered to Laurier employees who had been terminated in the past year. Thirty-six-year-old Bill Smith, a Western employee for the past 10 years, was one of those let go. His severance package included an offer of 5 weeks’ severance pay. Bill complained that this offer was less than that offered to Laurier’s employees when they were laid off, in contravention of the buyout agreement. A statistician was called in to settle the dispute. The statistician was told that severance is determined by length of service with the company. To determine how generous the severance package had been, a random sample of 50 Laurier ex-employees was taken. For each, the following variables were recorded: Number of weeks of severance pay Number of years with the company The statistician would like to use the above sample information and the appropriate statistical method to determine whether Bill is correct in his assessment of the severance package. Your report should have the following qualities:  Your report must be in a genuine report format with problem definition, analysis and final conclusion.  All important analysis steps needs to be followed to arrive at the model to be used for prediction. Attach the details of your analysis at the end of your report. Very simplistic analysis with no sufficient details is assigned a near zero credit. Just running excel does not guarantee any credit.  Your final conclusion should use both the 95% confidence and prediction intervals. Improper use of these and corresponding wrong/sloppy interpretations is highly penalized. Graded Case Study Topic: Chapter 14 (Regression)  Use Data Analysis for Regression and then either Data Analysis Plus or the Regression Template provided on the course website for the intervals. Project 4: Grading rubric: Total value: • 20 points o Research portion: § 10 points o Concept portion: § 10 points o Attributions/Works Cited page: § This score is lumped into the above 2 categories as you’ll need attributions for both General grading guidance: 1. We will be thinking about & grading your projects based off of 2 guidelines: perceived effort and followed instructions. Both are of equal importance. • Perceived effort: o This takes into account the overall presentation of your project, spel ...

1. Graded Case Study
Topic: Chapter 14 (Regression)
Case Study: Severance Pay
When one company buys another company, it is not unusual that
some workers are
terminated. The severance benefits offered to the laid-off
workers are often the subject of
dispute. Suppose that the Laurier Company recently bought the
Western Company and
subsequently terminated 20 of Western’s employees. As part of
the buyout agreement, it
was promised that the severance package offered to the former
Western employees would
be equivalent to those offered to Laurier employees who had
been terminated in the past
year. Thirty-six-year-old Bill Smith, a Western employee for
the past 10 years, was one
of those let go. His severance package included an offer of 5
weeks’ severance pay. Bill
complained that this offer was less than that offered to Laurier’s

2. employees when they
were laid off, in contravention of the buyout agreement. A
statistician was called in to
settle the dispute. The statistician was told that severance is
determined by length of
service with the company. To determine how generous the
severance package had been, a
random sample of 50 Laurier ex-employees was taken. For each,
the following variables
were recorded:
Number of weeks of severance pay
Number of years with the company
The statistician would like to use the above sample information
and the appropriate
statistical method to determine whether Bill is correct in his
assessment of the severance
package. Your report should have the following qualities:
at with problem
definition, analysis
and final conclusion.

3. the model to be
used for prediction. Attach the details of your analysis at the
end of your report.
Very simplistic analysis with no sufficient details is assigned a
near zero credit.
Just running excel does not guarantee any credit.
and prediction
intervals. Improper use of these and corresponding
wrong/sloppy interpretations
is highly penalized.
Graded Case Study
Topic: Chapter 14 (Regression)
Analysis Plus or the
Regression Template provided on the course website for the
intervals.
Project 4:
Grading rubric:

4. Total value:
• 20 points
o Research portion:
§ 10 points
o Concept portion:
§ 10 points
o Attributions/Works Cited page:
§ This score is lumped into the above 2 categories as you’ll
need attributions
for both
General grading guidance:
1. We will be thinking about & grading your projects based off
of 2 guidelines: perceived effort
and followed instructions. Both are of equal importance.
• Perceived effort:
o This takes into account the overall presentation of your
project, spelling,
grammar, proof reading, etc. If you project is well put together,
easy to
understand, and looks/sounds professional, you should score
well in this area.
• Followed instructions:
o This takes into account if you did what was asked of you by
the instructions
document. Did you include all the required elements? If you

5. did, you should do
well in this area.
2. After you submit your work, you project must stand alone.
Meaning, it must communicate
everything you intend to say to us in regard to this project. If it
doesn’t, you need to continue
polishing it until it does. We won’t have the benefit of you
explaining your work to us when we
grade it.
3. No one will be allowed to resubmit work for regrading. You
get 1 opportunity to turn work in;
turn in high quality work.
4. Design is subject. Therefore, grading is also subjective. The
AIs come with their own
understandings of each topic space (and personal perspectives).
Therefore, if you’re not detailed
enough in your project (meaning they cannot understand what
you’re talking about) it will be
reflected in your grade. You will always receive written
feedback with every submission in the
form of design feedback and critique.
Partial/no inline citations and/or partial/no Attributions
page/Works Cited page:
• Results in an automatic 0 on the full project and a mandated in
person meeting with
Joanna will be required immediately.

6. Project 4:
Formatting:
• Overall file submission type: PDF (1 file containing all 3
parts)
• Standard paper size: 8.5 x 11 – don’t use a larger page size
• Title page: (page 1 of overall document)
o Your name, title of project,
topic space
o Any size font
o Any readable font
o Landscape mode
o Multiple columns are okay
o 1 page only
• Research portion: (pages 2 & 3 of your overall document)
o 12 point font
o Main text: readable, print
font (not cursive)
o Single spaced
o Landscape mode
o Multiple columns are okay
o 1 page minimum, 2 pages
maximum

7. • Concept portion: (pages 4 & 5 of your overall document)
o 12 point font
o Main text: readable, print
font (not cursive)
o Single spaced
o Landscape mode
o Multiple columns are okay
o 3 self-sketched images of
your concept
o 1 page minimum, 2 pages
maximum
• Attributions/Works Cited page: (pages 6+ of your overall
document)
o 12 point font
o Main text: readable, print
font (not cursive)
o Single spaced
o Landscape mode
o As many pages as needed
• Additional page/appendices: (pages 7+ of your overall
document)
o OPTIONAL page – NOT
graded
o 12 point font

8. o Main text: readable, print
font (not cursive)
o Single spaced,
o Landscape mode
o As many pages as needed
Software recommendation: (STRONG recommendation)
• Use Adobe InDesign to format your full project
Key objectives:
• Overall:
o You MUST use INLINE citations throughout your research
and concept portions.
§ Recommendation:
• To save room, it helps to use subscripts such as: “….resource
1”,
superscripts such as, “…image 2”, or parentheses such as: “…
(image
3)”
• Be mindful that all numbers align with the numbers on your
attributions/works cited page.
• For the research:
o Get to know your topic space through reliable, scholarly
resources, (or reliable,

9. trusted, fact checked sources).
§ i.e.: Become well-educated in some capacity about the overall
topic space
provided to you as well as your target user group
o Pick a target user group to better understand your topic space
through their
perspective
o Helpful tip:
§ It helps to look into pre-existing products that are already in
place in the
given topic space. Look at technological solutions, analog
solutions,
common/uncommon solutions.
• For the concept:
o This is your ORIGINAL idea and/or a SIGNIFICANT iteration
off of a pre-
existing design.
§ Significant iteration involves drastically altering a pre-
existing design.
Minor changes won’t count as a significant iteration.
o Use the research you did in part 1 to support your design
choices (known as a
design rationale) for your concept.
o Craft your concept through the lens of your target user group
keeping in mind
their needs/requirements.

10. § Tip:
• It helps to talk about your concept from their perspective
directly
in your write up.
o Give us 3 self-sketched images of your concept
• For the attributions/Works Cited page:
o Use full citations
o Only use our class’s citation style found below:
§ Primary attribution:
• Image: description (source: insert your name here @ date of
creation)
• Source: description (source: insert your name here @ date of
creation)
§ Secondary attribution:
• Image: description (source: insert website here @ date of
access)
• Source: description (source: insert website here @ date of
access)
Project details:
Overall topic space:
Environmentalism

11. Sub topic space:
You may choose to study any subsector within the overall topic
space of environmentalism. This
could mean that many people in class choose the same (or
similar) sub topic space as yourself, or
you could pick something very unique that few others would
choose. As long as you can
articulate how your sub topic space fits within the overall,
you’re narrowing down this topic
space correctly.
For example, you could choose to study environmental relief
efforts, conservation efforts,
sustainability, climate change, solar energy, wind energy, etc.
Due:
• On Canvas, under assignments for Project 4
• Tuesday, Dec 10 by 2pm
Value:
• 20 points (see rubric on page 1)
Throughout this full project process, remember that the research
is being done to support the
concept portion. Making the 2 connect and flow together as
supportive units is extremely
important. The full project should read like a well written book
once you’re done crafting it.
Week 1: Research and concept portions combined
Research portion

12. During this phase, I am asking you to better understand the
overall topic space of
environmentalism as well as a target user group of your
choosing. You are to research into both
areas, read the research you’ve done fully, interpret the
research, and resynthesize it in written
format on 2 pages. Meaning you’ll be reiterating key points of
your research to us (your reader)
then showcasing insights you’ve discovered from doing the
research which will help lead you
into your concept portion.
Format your research portion through the guidelines found at
the start of this document. How
you choose to exactly layout your work on the 2 pages is up to
you. Design these intentionally to
fit your content.
Concept portion
Based off of the research you did (or from research you heard
from a classmate), create one
concept to solve a problem you identified through your research
findings. Remind us (your
reader) of how your research supported all of the choices you
made for your concept. Again, this
is called a design rationale. Give your concept a solid
foundation to stand on so when
questioned/critiqued, you can support your choices with sound
reasoning.
Format your concept portion through guidelines found at the
start of this document. How you

13. choose to exactly layout your work on the 2 pages is up to you.
Design these intentionally to fit
your content.
Do not forget to include the minimum of 3 self-sketched images
of your concept. What you
showcase in these drawings is up to you, but they must be
informative and support your write up.
You may hand draw your images with pencil/pen and paper, or
you may create sketches using
computer software. All images of your concept must be your
own. You must inline cite your
images anywhere you use them as well as cite each image in
your attributions/Works Cited pages
too.
Week 2: Small group presentations
During the 2nd week (on Thursday), you’ll present your project
(in its current standing) to a
preselected group of your classmates in small groups. Your
classmates will critique your project
and give you helpful feedback. Please note, we’ll teach you how
to conduct design critiques.
From the small group presentations, classmates will be selected
to present their final full projects
to the entire class the following Tuesday.
Short Report -- Case Study: Severance Pay

14. Read the information about this case and perform relevant
statistical analysis and write report in the following two phases.
Phase 1 (Proposal):
Due Date: December 8, Sunday 11 PM
Please complete following tasks for this phase.
Upload report using link on Titanium.
Write 1/2 to 1-page report and attach your charts. (2% course
grade)
a)
Describe the problem background and purpose of the study.
b)
Describe the variables included in the case.
c)
Use appropriate descriptive statistics to explore and summarize
the data, both numerical and graphical.
Are there any outlier values in severance pay?
d)
Remember to interpret the findings and indicate how you will
complete the analysis.

15. Phase 2 (Final Report):
Due Date: December 20, Friday after the exam
Please complete following tasks for this phase. Submit printed
hard copy report.
Write 1 to 2-pages report and attach your charts. (8% course
grade)
a)
Describe the problem background and purpose of the study.
b)
Describe the variables included in the case. Identify the
dependent variable.
c)
Outline the statistical methods required to answer the questions.
d)
Apply the statistical methods to answer these questions.
Follow all steps required to conduct a complete analysis.
e)
Final conclusions, decision-making and recommendations based
on the results.
Important Note:
Please follow the grading rubric carefully while preparing your
proposal and your final report.

16. Remember to focus on the writing as well -- grammar, typos,
flow and organization are key components.
Please write report in Times New Roman 12-pt font, single-
spaced with 1-inch margins on all sides.
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