In the Automotive Industry
1. Create a well-defined problem or objective statement. Well-stated objective statements include words such as determining, measuring, identifying, establishing, evaluating, and assessing.
2. Find data to prove/refute your objective statement.
3. Data requires a minimum of three variables, two quantitative and one categorical. For example, if the quantitative variables are the heights of a husband/wife, the categorical variable is gender.
4. You need a minimum of 50 usable rows of data.
5. Your instructor must approve the problem or objective statement and the data. Do not begin the analysis until approval is given.
6. The final project will require you to defend the validity of the data. Is the source reputable? How do you know?
7. The final project will require you to create a strategy and an implementation plan for addressing your problem statement. You will not actually have to implement the plan -just have a reasonable plan in place for doing so.