Unit 1 Discussion 2: State Your Topic
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Course Project Submission Part A
This discussion will be the beginning phase for your course project (Part A). Each week you will be doing parts of your project that will lead up to a final submission of all your parts into a final paper. Each submission will be graded. In this discussion you will take the first steps towards applying Statistics to real-life situations. Consider subjects you are interested in, hobbies you partake. You can also think about topics that you are curious about.
Maybe you want to know...
- The mean starting salary for a graduate in your field?
- The mean number of games won by your favorite sports team each year?
- The mean number of games lost by your favorite sports team's rival each year?
- The mean number of accidents reported at an intersection?
- The mean price of a brand of soda in 2-Liter bottles?
Or maybe you are curious about how two different items compare.
Maybe you want to know...
- Are the mean starting salaries for graduates in two fields the same?
- Does your favorite sports team win more games than their rivals each year?
- Which of two intersections has more accidents reported?
- Do two brands of soda have different costs?
For this discussion, you will need to state the following:
- State the topic that you would like to choose.
- How are you going to gather the data for this project?
- Provide the resource to where you obtained your data?