Assessment Item 2: Statistical Data Collection and Interpretation Objective: This assessment task requires you to collect and interpret data associated with the research problem identified in Assessment Item 1. A brief description of the task: Whilstcompletingthisassessmenttask,youwillidentifyappropriatemethodsofdatacollectionrelevanttoyour topic. You will subsequently perform the data collection and apply both qualitative and quantitative statistical analyses to draw insightful conclusions from the data. As part of this work, you are required to also identify potential sources of error in the collected data, e.g. instrumentation errors. You will also demonstrate the use and interpretation of one- and two-dimensional statistical analysis techniques through the analysis of the collected research related datasets. Part of your work will need to include a statistical validation check and you will need to comment on the reliability and limitations using established engineering techniques. Finally, you are to also propose solutions to add to or improve the quality of the data. Identify the sort or type of data that you will would collect and how you would go about obtaining it. Statisticsisused,here,tofindapatternwithinthedata. Presentyourdataandfindingsinthemostmeaningful way so that it is interesting to a professional audience. Your submitted report will be marked according to the marking rubric associated with this assessment. Assessment Item 2 is worth 25% of the total assessment for this unit. What you need to do: Youarerequiredtosubmitanindividualtechnicalreportwhichdemonstratesyourabilitytocollectandperform statistical analysis on data. Your report will contain supporting graphs, tables with an insightful interpretation ofthedata,findings,recommendationsandconclusions. Thereisnowordlimit;however,youshouldbeconcise. Assessment requirements: • This assignment is to be undertaken individually. • Makesure thatany analysisyoupresentisyourownworkand notsimply asummaryofwhat ispresented in the source or reference materials. • Be critical in your identification and analysis of information. • Justify the use of the sample data and the parameters under investigation. • Show all of the calculations (but be careful not to break from the technical report format). • Ensure that your report is informative and concise. • Use a basic and common font (i.e. Arial or Times New Roman). • Use an appropriate font size (10 or 12 pt). • Your submission must have quality references. • All references must be relevant to the topic. • Yoursubmissionshouldbeinasimpletext-basedformat,withanappropriatelayoutconsistingofsections (with section headings). For example, your section headings may be something like the following: 1. Project title 2. Project scope 3. Project parameters and the sample population 4. Collected data 5. Descriptive statistics 6. Correlation 7. Results discussion 8. Conclusions and recommendations Note: you do not have to use these headings, they are meant to be an example only. Submission deadline: Your paper must be submitted via CloudDeakin by 11:59 pm Monday the 8th of May. You may submit your paper in either .doc, .docx or .pdf format. Hard copies or other electronic file formats will not be accepted.