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A study of undergraduate computer science students examined changes in major after the first year. The study examined the fates of 256 students who enrolled as first-year students in the same fall semester. The students were classified according to gender and their declared major at the beginning of the second year. The students studied were enrolled at a large Midwestern university several years ago. Discuss how you would conduct a similar study at a college or university of your choice today. Include a description of all variables that you would collect for your study.

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For the purpose, students need to be sampled randomly at the first year of their enrollment at the selected college. Apart from collecting data on nominal variables (name,gender,ethnicity) alongwith ordinal variable (ratings of professor who teaches the major) and ratio level varibale (GPA) need to be collected.

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