A3: Initial Analyses

Overview

Assignment 3 will also serve as your lab for week 11.

The broad goal for this assignment is to ensure that you’re making progress on your final project.

The final project that you will submit for this class consists of the following:

  1. Introduction (5 percent, ~ 4 paragraphs)
  2. Theory and Expectations (10 percent, ~4+ paragraphs)
  3. Data (20 percent ~ 4+ paragraphs)
  4. Design (25 percent ~ 5+ paragraphs)
  5. Results (25 percent ~ 5+ paragraphs)
  6. Conclusion (5 percent ~ 3+ paragraphs)
  7. Appendix (10 percent ~ Variable codebook and all the R code for your project)

The specific expectations for each section are discussed in further detail in Assignment 4

Our focus this week will be on the logistical aspects of your final project

  • Downloading the template for your final paper
  • Making sure you’re set up for collaboration with GoogleDrive
  • Finish wrangling your data in the code of your final paper
    • Loading the data into R
    • Inspect the data
    • Completing recoding and if necessary, merging of the data
  • Begin describing the data
  • Begin outlining the other sections of your document (Intro, Theory, Data & Design, etc.)

Next week, we will focus on estimating, interpreting and presenting your results.