STA1007 Project

Due Thursday Dec 6th

First, locate a data set in your field. If you have a faculty advisor, he or she may be able to help. If this fails, poke around the Internet, ask other students, or ask me. It is recommended but not required that you briefly discuss the project with me before you do a lot of work.

Analyze your data using some of the statistical methods covered in this course. Unless there is a very good reason for using other software and we have explicitly agreed on this, please use SAS. Come to some conclusions. Write a cover section describing the data, where it came from and what you did with it. Make your conclusions explicit. This section not have to be polished; I am certainly not asking for a professional paper with an introduction, method, results, discussion and references. But it should be clear and readable by a non-specialist (me). Statistical terminology is okay. Length is is a minimum of one typed page and an absolute maximum of 5.

Attach the log and list files, showing all the analyses you mention in your cover section -- that is, the analyses upon which your main conclusions are based.

If you spend more than twice the time on this that you spend on the typical weekly assignment, it's too much. All I want is evidence that you've learned something you can use in your work.

Turning it in: The project is due on the day of the final exam, or before. That's Thursdaay April 12th in Gym C. I would slightly prefer hard copy, but an email attachment is okay before midnight on Aprl 12th. The attachment should be in a single pdf file.