1.Write a methodology (methodology section should be 800-900 words long).Use websites about Statistics or consult Statistics textbooks.

1.1Describe positivism as a paradigm in maximum 10 sentences 1.2 This study follows a non-experimental correlation approach... (explain this in 3 sentences) 1.4 Methods of data analysis Instruction: Explain how you will do your data exploration. For the data exploration, do not use descriptive statistics. Focus on the following three aspects only: 1. Visual representation of data, 2.Any possible missing data, and 3. Outliers. The. explain the calculation of Pearson correlation and simple regression analysis and how these should be evaluated and interpreted. 1.5 Ethical considerations

The following ethical issues should be covered briefly, in no more than half a page: - Not falsifying fabricating data. -Citing all authors or providers of sourced information -Not embarrassing or exposing companies or organizations involved in the study. -Execute the research in a professional manner that will be beneficial to the participants and society. ( Also provide references)

A) Research problem - The research problem of this study is to determine if there is a correlation between the share price of Exxaro Ltd and the coal price - Hypothesis Hypotheses of this study are the following: H0 there is no correlation between the share price of Exxaro Ltd and the coal price( At a significance level of 5) * H1 there is a positive correlation between the share price of Exxaro Ltd and the coal price( At a significance level of 5)

* H2 there is a negative correlation between the share price of Exxaro Ltd and the coal price( At a significance level of 5)

2. Results Present and describe your results by applying what you described in section 1, provide your summary statistics( in tables and figures) 2.1 Instruction: for the data exploration, do not provide any descriptive statistics. Focus on the following three aspects only: 1. Visual representation of the data, 2. Report if there are any missing data and 3. Outliers. In other words, one should plot all the data on one graph to explore if there is any visual evidence of possible correlations or not. Confirm there are no missing data.Also, demonstrate how you have identified outliers using box and whisker plots and describe how you treated such outliers in a study if there is any. 2.2 Correlation analysis

Use the MS Excel spreadsheet containing the data and perform both Pearson correlation analysis and a simple regression analysis. If you are familiar with EViews then you are welcome to use EViews instead of MS Excel. 2.3 Interpretation of the results Instruction: link your interpretation of the results to each of the hypothesis provided in research problem A)