Investigation of the luggage handling  system’s efficiency at Melbourne airport

Objectives of Assignment: 

• To increase understanding of the skills required to collect, analyse and  interpret quantitative research data; 

• To increase understanding of the relationships between data collection, data  analysis and data interpretation when conducting quantitative ICT research; 

• To develop skills and competence in the conduct of quantitative ICT research. 

In this assignment, we will be conducting an investigation of the luggage handling  system’s efficiency at Melbourne airport. You have been presented with data across  four terminals (T1, T2, T3, T4) in Melbourne Airport for the period 1 January 2018 to 31  December 2019. The airport is interested in understanding the efficiency of the luggage  handling system across the 4 terminals and also to gauge if the automatic luggage  scanners have made a difference in the efficiency of the luggage handling process. The  researchers collected data on the average time taken for the first suitcase to arrive on  the baggage carousel across all flights in a day. The researchers also collected data on  the total number of luggages in the same time period. On 1 Jan 2019, the airport  introduced the automatic luggage handling system in Terminals 2 and 3.

Requirements: 

Your task is to select and apply statistical analysis techniques to examine the data and  derive some conclusions to the following questions: 

1. Formulate a research question with respect to the airport’s interest.

2. Select the appropriate data to conduct a statistical test to determine if there is a  significant difference between 2 independent groups. 

• Describe and plot relevant data selected from the full dataset using an  appropriate chart. 

• Formulate the appropriate hypotheses. 

• Discuss and justify whether parametric or non-parametric test would be  suitable for this data. 

• Run the appropriate statistical test and discuss the results. 

3. Select the appropriate data to conduct a statistical test to determine if there is a  significant difference between 2 dependent groups. 

• Describe and plot relevant data selected from the full dataset using an  appropriate chart. 

• Formulate the appropriate hypotheses. 

• Discuss and justify whether parametric or non-parametric test would be  suitable for this data. 

• Run the appropriate statistical test and discuss the results 

4. Select the appropriate data to conduct a statistical test to determine if there are  significant differences between more than 2 independent groups. 

• Describe and plot relevant data selected from the full dataset using an  appropriate chart. 

• Formulate the appropriate hypotheses. 

• Discuss and justify whether parametric or non-parametric tests would be  suitable for this data. 

• Run the appropriate statistical test and discuss the results.