You
can choose to work on the project on your own or with another person of your
choice from the class.
Goal: Collect and analyze data to
answer few questions of interest to you about a target population.
Assignments:
1.
Proposal
of a project with data[1].
(Assigned today)
2.
Descriptive
analysis of the data. (Assigned,
returned and graded before 1st midterm)
3.
Exploring
Relationships between variables in the data and discussion of the design.
(Assigned, returned and graded before 2nd midterm)
4.
Statistical
Inference, final conclusions. (Assigned, returned and graded before final)
Note: Assignments are “linked”,
completion of each assignment will depend on the completion of the previous
assignments.
Time:
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You
will have a week to complete each part. You will have additional time to
complete the first part if you decide to collect data yourself through a
survey.
Grading:
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The
instructor will grade project assignment.
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Each
assignment will have equal weight.
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Same
rules for organization, neatness and clarity of answers applied to hwk will be
applied to project assignments.
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The
first step will not be graded until the instructor approves the project.
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If
you decide to collect the data yourself through a survey or collect it from
different sources, your proposal for the analysis has to be approved before you
proceed to collect the data.
More
about the data:
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Data
is collected from a target population.
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20-30
individuals.
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3
variables, either 3 quantitative variables with 2 continuous or 2 quantitative
continuous variables + 1 categorical variable.
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Collect
data from one source, multiple sources or through a survey. One source: all
data is a published data in a magazine, a newspaper, a scientific journal, or
available on a website. Collected from multiple sources: some data available in
one source and other parts is other source.
[1] If you choose to conduct a survey, your project has to be approved by the instructor before you conduct the survey. If you choose to collect data from different sources, your project has to be approved by the instructor before you collect the data. If you choose to collect the data from a single source, you have to submit the data in an Excel table along with the proposal.