Does parental income and education influence BMI?
statistical Research Projects
Project Objective: Application of statistical concepts and techniques taught in QM 292.
Project Outcomes: Formulation of research hypothesis and relevant model specification, data set construction, and empirical analysis of model results.
Students can work as individuals or in teams of two. The project consists of 5 phases with each phase due to the instructor by midnight of the prescribed due date. Each completed Phase must be submitted to me in Canvas by the due date. The project is worth 100 points and constitutes 10% of your total grade for this course.
Failure to submit a completed phase by the due date will result in a penalty of 10 points for each late phase.
Note of caution, if you choose to work in a team and your team member fails to submit an individual phase by the due date or submit the project in its entirety by the due date, both team members will be assessed penalty points. If your team member withdraws from the course, you alone will be responsible for the project which includes meeting all required deadline submissions.
Graduating seniors who fail to submit the final project as an individual or as part of a team will receive an ‘I’ (incomplete for the course).
Each project phase (1-5) must be submitted to the instructor through Canvas.
The project is due May 1, 2021 in electronic format. Submit the assignment from within the Canvas Assignment.
PHASE 1 – March 24, 2021
a. Identify and state a research question of interest. The research question must be stated such that multiple linear regression can be applied to the analysis of the question. In Phase 1 address (a) why is your research question of interest to the reader and (b) Why is your research question relevant?
Examples of questions where multiple linear regression is not applicable:
a. Is there any difference in BMI between males and females? This is test of means.
b. Does Google stock have greater performance variability as compared to Yahoo? This is a variance test.
Examples of research questions might be:
c. Females or more likely to attrite from college then males. Alternatively, this can be phrased as ‘Is there any difference in the college attrition rate between the genders’?
d. Is the consumer price index a good predictor of Christmas retail spending?
e. Was President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act successful in stimulating the US economy after the May 2007 housing crash?
f. What factors are most likely to influence stock performance?
g. Does parental income and education influence BMI?
h. What factors contribute to US city homicide rates?
i. To what extent is defense spending influenced by world oil prices and US oil demand?
j. What factors (demographic, macroeconomic, industrial spending, environmental) are most likely to predict the outbreak of Ebola or other diseases (polio, malaria, bird flu)?