Due Date: Wednesday
Feb. 18th [NOTE: The first part of the project is due Feb. 11th, and
presentations will be done in an X-hour Thursday Feb. 19
and in class Friday Feb 20.]
Type of Project: Group [Groups may be
of any size. All groups of
3 or fewer students will be expected to have done the work of a 3 person
project, those of more students will be graded with higher expectations]
Focus of Project: Design and implement an experiment to test a
hypothesis.
Description:
You will pick a topic of interest to you in which there
is a hypothesis you wish to test. Your group will clearly explain the
implementation as well as all other pertinent facts about the experiment
in a paper prior to the experiment. After running the experiment an
analysis of results will be turned in and a short presentation made to the
class.
Some questions we are concerned with are:
1) Does
your project show proper attention to control show that your data is meaningful?
2) Did you pick an intelligent choice for alpha given the GOAL of your project.
3) Is your test statistic linked to your parameter in an appropriate way?
4. Does your project use the correct language and calculations for hypothesis testing?
The assignment has three parts:
a)Pre-implementation write-up You should discuss your goal, protocol, choice of significance level, estimation of power, contingency plans as precisely as possible. A sample is provided here . This is due Feb. 11th.
b)After implementing your experiment, you should turn in an analysis of results, along with a discussion of whatever other factors someone reading your results should know. If you have a proposal for action based upon your experiment, include it as well. This is due Feb. 18th.
c)Present your results in class on Thursday Feb. 19th or
on Friday Feb. 20th
.