Guide to Group Statistics Projects

• Project Planner -- You download a copy of this. In the white cells fill out a name for your group, your names, the two variables you want to study the relationship of, whether they are categorical with two values, categorical with multiple values or numerical, and the population you want to consider (if you are not sure what you want to do for your project or are not sure how to fill it in, come and talk to me). Then email it to me, with further explanation if your project requires it. I will email it back to you with comments and suggesting changes to make it more tractible or appropriate. We keep emailing back until all of us are satisfied with what it says. When I grad your projects at the end of the semester I will fill out the blue cells on the right to compute your grade.
• Project Rubric -- Guidelines for the project, structure for how it should be organizex and rubric for the grading. Notice depending on the statistical procedure you use the total may be less than 100 points, so if you want it to add up to 100 points you will need to do additional work, such as a larger sample, a small literature review, steps to check for sampling bias etc. I occasionally get projects which earn more than 100 points.
• Sample Report from a Group Project -- I wrote this to show you the sort of thing I was looking for. The data is entirely made up.
• Guidelines for Group Project -- I hope this maikes everything clear!