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First,
carefully review each of your group’s presentations and compare them with the
project task guidelines. Find out whether your group’s analyses addressed the
questions we had asked for the project as a whole (i.e. purpose of project).
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Review
your analysis from any or all of the tasks so that you can adequately address
them in the final project and presentation.
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Purpose
of Project: ·
Comparison of the UW-Madison Students’ drinking behaviors (our
Population) based on our samples with the Harvard School 1999 College Alcohol
Study (National survey results) ·
Understanding the drinking patterns of UW-Madison students as a whole
(our Population) Questions: 1)
What are your conclusions on drinking behaviors for the whole
population of UW-Madison compared to the national pattern? Are they similar
to the national survey results, or significantly different from those? What
analyses support your conclusions? 2)
Using the survey information you obtained in the sample, how can you
describe the drinking pattern of UW-Madison students as a whole? Do not
restrict your analysis to comparisons with the national survey, but provide
descriptive analysis of the survey results from all groups. 3)
Is there any difference in drinking behavior between the national
survey result and that of UW based on the characteristics of students
surveyed? Are their distinct
populations of drinkers in the UW population based on location, gender,
etc.? Can you identify correlations
between drinking and any other student characteristics? For each conclusion, provide the analyses
(testing, tables, graphs, correlations, etc.) that support your answer.
Include both factors that make a difference as well as those that make no
difference in comparison. 4)
How can you use your analyses for the UW-Madison? Is there any
implication for the UW-Madison? Should
the university be concerned about the results? Do the results offer any insight to addressing binge drinking
as a problem? 5) In retrospect, were your sampling design and sample size, data collection process, and questionnaire appropriate for our purpose? If so, explain why? If not, explain why not? Explain the potential impacts of sampling design to your result and its implications for future survey or analysis. How might your sampling design provide more or less representative samples than that used by Harvard? |
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Of
equal importance, crosscheck each analysis with regard to whether all of your
analyses (descriptive, inferential, correlation, etc.) are compatible with each
other and that there are no contradictions among them (similar data used, no
contradictory descriptions, conclusions, etc.).
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To
find out the general pattern of drinking behaviors of UW-Madison, you need to
do some analysis with a composite sample of all groups’ surveys (between group
comparison and within group comparison). You can add correlation and regression
analysis too, to supplement your conclusions or arguments in the project.
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Review
the report of the Harvard Study to find some similarities or dissimilarities between your
sample and the population. What is a big difference in our sample statistics
compared with
the population? What are the causes of the difference?
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Include
at least 2 comparisons with Harvard study, 2 within UW population tests (i.e.
samples from other groups), 2 within your sample comparisons (refer to
guidelines of task 3).
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You
can try additional inferential analysis:
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Hypothesis
testing (Nonparametric test, ANOVA F-test, Chi-square test)
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Correlation
analysis
(If you come across problems or
need data from other groups, email me ASAP.)
junghwaahn@students.wisc.edu
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Save
all your
successful test/analysis results to make a report.
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You
may refer to the Harvard Study document to see how to make a final report for
the project.
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Your
report should cover at least the following issues (including answers for
questions):
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1.
Introduction & problem statement -
The purpose of your project and sampling design and data collection
process, and its impacts on your analysis, etc. (refer to project guideline
and task1 guideline) 2.
Descriptive statistics -
The general drinking pattern of UW-Madison students as a whole, comparison
with Harvard study,…. (refer to guidelines for task2) 3.
Inferential analysis -
Testing and correlation analysis to answer questions above: you must
show at least 4-5 tests (refer to guidelines for task 3) 4.
Conclusion and implication -
Final conclusion for project and suggestion for application of your
analysis; what you learned from this project, etc. |
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Your
report should be between 5 ~ 7 pages long and your analysis and interpretations
should be consistent with each other.
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Final
report due is 12/19 (F) 5:00 pm.
IV.
Make a summary
for your presentation
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Make
a short summary report for final presentation on Wednesday of last week
(12/10).
Clearly
state what your analyses tell us about drinking behavior of UW-Madison
students.
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Send your file to me by Tuesday (12/9) evening so that I can make a
transparency copy for you.
· After your presentation, turn in your project report to Chris or me. Remember that your project report should show all work from each pair, so that your group can get a fair grade.
· Final presentation is also important in your final grade for the project. All members of your group are responsible to add their efforts to complete the report.
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Project Grading (15% of course grade): - Completeness of tasks (7%) - Consistency of analyses (3%) - Final presentation (3%) - Creativeness & efforts (2%) |