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ABSTRACT
Statistical Analysis has been used to provide solutions to complex problems in such
diverse areas as communications, stability, finding patterns in data sets of variables and
other areas of interest. Although these problems previously lacked adequate mathematical
treatment, the results of statistical analysis have been significant both for explanation of a
pattern and also for prediction. Statistical analysis is a general scientific method and it
has applications in many areas of scientific research. The statistical analysis tool
developed provides such information about the department of statistics alumni at Kansas
State University.
This project consists of implementing a statistical analysis tool, which provides patterns
to explain research questions pertaining to the KSU statistics alumni. The project uses
statistical analysis methods like linear regression, correlation, hypothesis and chi-square
tests to provide the relationship between GPA of the alumni, his/her degree (MS/PhD),
the probability of getting a job being dependent on his/her citizenship and the dependence
of salaries on the degrees obtained. The object oriented design methodology and
programming techniques are applied to the development of the software tool. The project
applies the fundamentals of the J2EE architecture; and the Enterprise Java Beans
construct towards building a web based tool, which provides the registered user with the
ability to perform the aforementioned tests on the alumni data.
The main features of the project are an input data set of the KSU statistics alumni in
Oracle database, which provides the required information for the statistical analysis tests,
Internet access and easy-to-use interface to use the application, and instant graphical
representation and tabular summarization of the analysis results.
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