Mathematics 363

Introduction to Statistical Methods

Fall 2011

Course Project

The course will include a short project. The project will be completed in pairs.

The project will have three due dates

· November 15 – Prepare a 1-page proposal. This page will have the title of the project and the participants. It consist of a description of the project and the nature of the data. In addition, the proposal will include an expert who will help with the project. This expert can be either the course instructor or assistant.

· December 1 – Submit a 3-page preliminary report. This report will have a more complete background to the project, a presentation on relevant summaries of the data, and some inferential question – estimates or hypotheses – that will be included in the final report.

· December 15 – Submit a 5-page final report. The final report will do necessary editing to the preliminary report, add the analysis of the inferential questions and prepare a discussion of summary. You can keep to a simple outline – Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion.

Students can either present on a project of their own choosing.

or

Use one of the five designated projects.

• Coretention of Words and Genes on the Island of Sumba, Eastern Indonesia

Distance matrices

• Fitting Force-dependent Kinetic Models to Single-Molecule Dwell Time Records
• Modeling Populations of Flour Beetles
• Predicting Individual Bacterium Cell Growth Behavior from Population Information

Writing Lab Reports from Stat Labs: Mathematical Statistics Through Applications by Terrence Speed and Deborah Nolan is a good guide.

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