Statistics and Data
Science 363
Introduction to
Statistical Methods
Spring 2019
Course Project
The course will include a short project. The project will be
completed in pairs.
The project will have three due dates
·
February
28 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.
·
April
16 Submit a 3 to 5-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. We will also have a 7 minute in class presentation in the
last week of class.
·
May
9 Submit a 7 to 10-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. In
your supplementary material, add any software code that you use and any data
set or a link to the data.
Writing
Lab Reports from Stat Labs: Mathematical Statistics Through Applications
by Terrence Speed and Deborah Nolan is a good guide.
Recent
project topics
·
The
impact of poor sleep patterns for development in Down syndrome infants
·
Insulin
injection protocols and control of blood sugar levels (applied to the student
himself!)
·
Changes
of erosion patterns due to climate change
·
Carbon
sequestering in the Upper Midwestern United States forests
·
The
impact of sleep for cigarette smokers
·
Stock
market volatility in Western and emerging markets
·
Calibration
of an infrared detector to be placed in Antarctica
·
Leaf
transpiration in arid lands
·
Antibiotic
resistance of bacteria
·
Performance
on standardized test of schools in low socioeconomic communities
·
The
correlation of measures of happiness and economic indicators
·
Analysis
of the short stories of Edgar Allen Poe
·
Impact
of Family Medical Leave on the behavior of new parents
·
Carbon
impact of diets
·
Mobile
Phone Detector for Zika
·
Point
spread and rivalry games in college football
You are encouraged
to double dip, bring projects from their labs, enhance your honors thesis or
your senior design project.