Project 4
Using any database that appears in the course notes or lecture (e.g., the economics database, or Yahoo! Financials, or the Bureau of Labor Studies), ask some question! Come up with a hypothesis, do the analysis, write up your results, generate the graphs that help to tell your story.
Specifically, you must have the following:
- State the hypothesis being tested.
- Identify the independent and dependent variables.
- Explain how the variables are operationally defined.
- Discuss the validity of the operational definitions (both face validity and construct validity)
- Discuss the use of and/or need for a control group or control groups.
- Discuss whether the findings can be generalized from the sample used.
- Indicate whether your approach (for the story you are considering) fits into the naturalistic observation, correlational approach, and/or experimental approach. It might not fit neatly into any one of these approaches. Explain your decision.
- You must have descriptive statistics for your data you're using.
- You must have graphs of your data – you can pick what graphs you show and the type (scatter? histogram) in order to best convey your point.
- You must use inferential statistics to test your hypotheses.
You will turn in two pieces:
- At the beginning of class on July 31, you are to turn in a hard-copy printout of your paper containing all of the above. Your papers should be at least three pages long and no longer than five pages. It should be double-spaced, 12 point times, with 1-inch margins (top/bottom and left/right). It can be printed on A4 or US "letter" sized paper.
- You should mail your program code and data sets used to Mark Guzdial before class as well. Your program code should print out all the statistics that you need.
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