GUIDELINES FOR THE 110B PROJECT

It can be a group of an individual project. Groups can include up to 3 students.
It has to be related to the Curriculum 2000 proposal, in some way. You can collect data from students, parents, faculty, the registrar's office, other universities, the web etc. If you have a creative idea that sounds a bit off the beaten track, and you are not sure it is related enough to C2000, email me or talk to me.
To see the current version of the C2000 proposal, look at: Curriculum 2000

A good project should 1) identify an interesting question; 2) design a study to address it; 3) collect the data (or find it in some database); 4) analyze the results; 5) write a brief report.
The report should not be longer than 2 typed pages, not including figures, and should include the following sections:

• Background and goals of the project.
• Study design. Why is the study design appropriate for the goals? What are its limitations?
• Method of analysis. Why is the method appropriate for the study? Justify the choice of any prior distributions.
• Results. What are the conclusions? How confident can we feel about the accuracy of the results? Are there any caveats in interpreting your results?

I would love it if by the due-date of the project you could send me by email a one-paragraph description of your results, written so that it can be understood without statistical expertise. I would like to use such desritions to assemble a webpage with results from all your investigations.

The project is due in class on november 24th.

To read a humorous article about the C 2000 proposal, look here.