Project Description - Statistics 514 - Fall 2005
Collect a research-type data set and analyze the data using methods that are covered in
our course. You should plan to use methods from at least two chapters in the text.
Get my approval before conducting your analyses. Your report is due in two parts. The
first two sections of the project are due by Friday, September 16, while the final report
is due by Monday, December 5, 2005. Your final report, which should be approximately 10
double-spaced typed pages in length (plus an Appendix with graphs, computer code, and
selected computer printouts not to exceed 15 pages), will describe your analyses and
should include the following four sections:
- The context of the study (no more than 2 pages).
- General information about the topic.
- The general hypotheses of interest.
- Specify H0 and H1 for the tests of major interest.
- The goals of the study, i.e., what it would contribute to knowledge in the field. Also,
relate it to other studies already done in the field.
- Describe the population from which the subjects will be selected. Describe the sampling
procedure and the allocation of subjects to treatments, if applicable.
These first two sections (listed above) are due on Friday, September 16.
- Present the results of the analyses.
- Report information that you have learned about the data from exploratory analyses
(using, for example, Proc Insight). Generate some graphs or plots to describe the data.
- Analyze the data using SAS. Present the main results from the analyses in the body of
the report. In an Appendix include printouts of the raw data (not to exceed 2 pages),
graphical displays, the SAS programs, and all of the computer results (up to 15 pages in
total).
- Discuss the implications of your results for this field, and compare your results to
other published results. (Most of this should follow from your results and the background
information in part 1)
Special thanks to Dr. Bill Mickelson, whose Stat 401 Project Description I have
borrowed and adapted to make this Project Description.