Day 3 Semester Project
Semester projects may deal with any topic that interests you [the student], as long as it is approved by the instructor.
Broadly, projects are expected to identify a research problem and develop a designed experiment that is appropriate for solving that problem. Projects consist of a manuscript and a tutorial that describes the research problem, the experiment design and the treatment design.
3.2 Partial deadlines
3.2.1 Project proposal - Due Friday January 30 at 4pm CT
Write a page-long project proposal that states your research problem and the objective of your project.
3.2.2 Written report - Due Wednesday April 20 at 2pm CT for peer review
Submit a manuscript to one of your classmates. The manuscript must include Abstract (250w), Introduction (~500w), M&M (~300-500w), Results (~400w), Discussion (~400w), Conclusions (~100w).
3.2.3 Oral presentation - Somewhere between May 1 - May 9
Prepare a 15 minute presentation of the core aspects of your project. Presentations should include at least:
- Motivation/Background
- Methods, including a clear and complete description of the statistical model and code
- Discussion of strengths and weaknesses
- Conclusions
3.2.4 Written report and reproducible tutorial - Due May 15
- Manuscript must include a publication-ready analysis.
- Must include Abstract (250w), Introduction (~500w), M&M (~300-500w), Results (~400w), Discussion (~400w), Conclusions (~100w).
- Last paragraph in the Introduction should clearly state the research gap and the research objectives.
- Publication-ready tutorial/R documentation