STAT 206 Final Project Guideline
Fall 2018
Final Project Timeline
November 28 (Wednesday) In Class Project Proposal Due
December 13 (Thursday) 12:00pm Final Project Report Due
About the Final Project
Your task is to conduct a start-to-finish statistical analysis of a real data set aided by knowledge
and techniques learned in this class (or beyond). This includes formulating questions, building
models, performing analysis and diagnostics, interpreting results and wrapping everything up in a
paper format report.
Project Proposal
On the Project Proposal, you should provide the information listed below.
1. Group Membership.
You are encouraged to form groups with no more than 3 members. You can also do an individual
project, then the group will only have one member. In the proposal, you need to list all
group member(s) and their email address(es). Each group also need to indicate a
contact person for future coordinations with the Professor and TA (Lingfei Cui).
2. Which Data to Analyze.
Each group need to choose a data set to analyze. I will upload several data sets on the smartsite
(data sets and descriptions under “Files/Project”), or you may use your own data (e.g., from
your lab). In the latter case, make sure that the data from yourself is at least as complex (e.g.,
in terms of number of variables and number of cases) as the data sets provided by me. If you
are not sure, you should come to my o