Project Objectives and Skills
You and your team should refer to this page for the project expectations. See the project calendar for due dates for each portion of this project.
Research Question
- Identify a question that is interesting, appropriate, and worthy of investigation
- Your question must lend itself to data that can be analyzed using the methods learned in class
- You are expected to get your question approved prior to collecting data
- Form appropriate hypothesis to guide your investigation
- Data can come from three sources: A well-designed and carried out survey, observational study, or experiment. Your data collection procedure should accurately reflect the question being researched.
- A full, detailed description of the collection procedure should be included in your final report. Thoroughly describe the procedure in terms of the methodology learned this year.
- Organize raw data in a spreadsheet (or on the calculator) and include in your final report.
- Analyze raw data using appropriate graphical and numerical procedures.
- Describe shape, outliers, center, and spread of datasets in the contexts of your research questions.
- Include appropriate graphical displays and numeric summaries/descriptions in your final report.
- Interpret the EDA in the context of your research question.
- Form appropriate hypotheses to answer your research question.
- Check appropriate conditions for your test of significance.
- Show all applicable work: Sampling Distribution, Test Statistic, Calculation, p-value. etc.
- Answer your research question based on your inferential calculations.
- You are expected to write up your findings in a final report. This report should follow a standard academic format and should include a section for each task noted above.
- You and your team will present your findings to a panel in a 5 minute presentation with time for a question & answer session. You are expected to incorporate visuals - Powerpoint, etc.
- You will need to provide contact information for 2 potential panelists, one person in the building and one person outside.