Labs in STA440 are not graded and they do not count for credit or points.

This lab will help guide your second case study and contain some helpful hints for analysis. Only Exercise 4 asks you to carry out an analysis.

  1. Keep in mind that performers are instructed to select certain pieces from a pre-defined lists for each round. Have you accounted for this in your analysis?
  2. Once performer choose pieces, they may order them in any way they choose. Are you considering the order in which pieces get selected for their programs?
  3. Performers who select certain pieces in earlier rounds may not choose them again in later rounds. How does this factor into your analysis? Are there any pieces that show up both “early” and “late”? How might you examinine placement?
  4. Chopin’s Scherzos and Ballades are single-movement, large-scale pieces that are required for multiple rounds. Examinine associations between selection of these pieces against another categorical variable of your choice (not necessarily an “outcome” variable!). What sorts of conclusions might you draw?