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STATISTICS 1123TERM PROJECT INFORMATIONSPRING SEMESTER 2020The objective of the term project is to provide you with the opportunity to gain experience instudy design, data collection, analysis and summary of data, contextual interpretation of data, and drawing conclusions from data. Both univariate and bivariate statistical methods mustbeutilized in your term project. Youare encouraged to design and conduct a statistical investigation focusing on yourparticular topic of interest.Each student is required to complete a term project(worth 12% of your final grade). Those who fail to complete a satisfactoryterm project will receive a final grade for the course no higher than “D”.Note that you can obtain at most 30 marks on your presentation(seedocument: ‘TermProject_GradingScheme’).10% of the totalmark will be allocated to handing in the following 2documentson time: 1) projectproposal and 2) power point presentation (if you fail to hand in any of these 2documents on time you will automatically get 10% deducted from the total of 30 marks of your presentation). Youmustwork ina group of 4students(no exceptions!). You are welcome to form your groups, but if you would like me to assign you to a group –please let me know. Eachmember of your group isrequired to complete a peer evaluation form(see document: ‘PeerEvaluationForms’)for each of the members of the group, outlining the contributions they made to the term project, as well as providing an assessment of theircontributions. This evaluation form needs to be handed in on the day ofyourpresentation. The requirements for successful completion of the term project are summarized as follows:1)In this project you have two options for data collection: 1)Collect your data(using an appropriate random sampling designmethod that we learned in class) on Langara studentsthrough an anonymous survey(using a questionnaire that you will design). 2)The second option is to find an appropriate dataset on the internet (please speak with me first to check if your dataset is suitable for this project–your dataset must have at least 6 to 8 variables, and between 50 and 80 observations). Anexample of a website where you might find a solid dataset is: https://dasl.datadescription.com/datafiles/. Thiswebsiteis by no means the only source of suitable datasets, so you are welcome to do your search,depending on the topic of your interest.2)Handin a hard copyof thedocument ‘TermProject_Proposal’on March 3.In the project proposal outlinea suitable topic, the objective(s) of your study, sampling design (if you are collecting your data) and steps you plan to take to minimize bias, and a description of variables to be measured, along with other indicated questions in the project proposaldocument.Oneproposalper groupis required.
23)You will presentyour findingsas a groupas an in-class presentation (using PowerPoint software) on the following dates during class:March 31andApril 2.You must submit acopy of your PowerPoint presentation (NOTa web-linkto a Google version of ppt)to a folder, on our D2L website: Assessments àAssignments àTerm Projectby Saturday, March 28,11:59pmalong with the list of all student names, course number & section,andproject title.4)Your presentation mustcontain the following sections: title, authors, background or introduction(i.e. the reasoning why you chose this topic), objectives of the study, methods, results (tabular and graphical summaries), summary of results, limitations of the study, conclusions and recommendations(please refer to document TermProject_GradingScheme’ for details). Peer evaluation reports (see document ‘PeerEvaluationForms’) must be handed in at the timeof your presentation.Each group will have 6minutesto present, and each member of the group will be expected to contribute to the presentation equally.Please note that you will be graded on being able to keep your presentation within the allocated timeand you will not be allowed to continue if your presentation ends up being longer than 6minutes.A period of 2-3minutes of questions by the instructor and students will follow the presentation.Please see the next page on more specific details of yourprojectà