Mathematics 363
Introduction to Statistical Methods
Spring 2018
Course Project
The
course will include a short project. The project will be completed in pairs.
The
project will have three due dates
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March 1 Ð Prepare a 1-page proposal. This page will have the title of the project and the
participants. It consists 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 the course instructor.
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April 17 Ð 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 Ð estimates or hypotheses Ð that will be included
in the final report. We will also have a 7
minute in class presentation in the last week of class.
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May 11 Ð 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 Ð Introduction,
Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion.
Writing Lab Reports
from Stat Labs: Mathematical Statistics Through Applications by Terrence
Speed and Deborah Nolan is a good guide.
Recent
project topics
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The impact of poor
sleep patterns for development in DownÕs syndrome infants
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Insulin injection
protocols and control of blood sugar levels (applied to the student himself!)
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Changes of erosion
patterns due to climate change
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Carbon sequestering
in the Upper Midwestern United States forests
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The impact of sleep
for cigarette smokers
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Stock market
volatility in Western and emerging markets
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Calibration of an
infrared detector to be placed in Antarctica
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Leaf transpiration
in arid lands
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Antibiotic
resistance of bacteria
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Performance on
standardized test of schools in low socioeconomic communities
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The correlation of
measures of happiness and economic indicators
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Analysis of the
short stories of Edgar Allen Poe
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Impact of Family
Medical Leave on the behavior of new parents
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Carbon impact of
diets
You
are encouraged to double dip, bring projects from their labs, enhance your
honorÕs thesis or your senior design project.