This is a draft of the introduction section of your project as well as a data analysis plan and your dataset.

  • Introduction: The introduction should introduce your general research question (this should include your hypothesized answer) and your data (where it came from, how it was collected, what are the cases, what are the variables, etc.).

  • Data analysis plan: The data analysis plan should include:

  1. The comparison groups you will use, if applicable.
  2. The outcome (dependent, response, Y) and predictor (independent, explanatory, X) variables you will use to answer your question.
  3. The statistical method(s) that you believe will be useful in answering your question(s). (You can update these later as you work on your project.)
  4. What results from these specific statistical methods are needed to support your hypothesized answer?
  • Data: Print out your entire dataset, or a representative subset of it. Use a scrollable table if this is long.

Each section should be no more than 1 page (excluding figures). You can check a print preview to confirm length. Your write up and all typesetting must be done with using R Markdown.

Grading

Total 50 pts
Introduction 20 pts
Data analysis plan 15 pts
Data 10 pts
Organization and code quality 5 pts