Day 4 Semester Project
Semester projects may deal with any topic that interests you [the student], as long as it is approved by the instructor.
Broadly, projects are expected to (i) identify a research problem, (ii) develop an appropriate workflow that is appropriate for solving that problem, and (iii) create a report and reproducible tutorial.
4.1 Learning objectives
- Be able to identify an experiment design that is appropriate for answering a given research question and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of that design for answering the question.
- Be able to write the materials and methods section of a paper/thesis, including the statistical model that corresponds the experiment design.
4.2 Partial deadlines
4.2.1 Project proposal - Due Friday September 24 at 11:59pm CT
Write a page-long project proposal that states your research problem and the objective of your project. An example of an appropriate project proposal can be found here.
4.2.3 Oral presentation - Somewhere between December 3 - December 12
Prepare a 15 minute presentation of the core aspects of your project. Presentations should include at least:
- Motivation,
- Methods, including a clear and complete description of the statistical model and code,
- Discussion of strengths and weaknesses.
4.2.4 Written report - Due Friday December 19 at 11:59pm CT for peer review
Submit a manuscript including:
- Introduction (background & justification of the problem)
- Methods, including:
- A complete ANOVA table describing the degrees of freedom associated to mean comparisons,
- A clear and complete description of the statistical model,
- R code to implement that model,
- Results
- Discussion including strengths and weaknesses of the design/analysis,
- Conclusions.