Editing User:Aaronshaw/Stats course (section)

==== Project planning document ====

;Due date: Thursday, May 16, 2019
;Maximum length: 5 pages

The project planing document is a basic shell/outline of an empirical quantitative research paper. Your planning document should should have the following sections: (a) Rationale, (b) Objectives; (b.1) General objectives; (b.2) Specific objectives; (c) Null hypotheses; (d) Conceptual diagram and/or explanation of the relationship you plan to test; (e) Measures; (e) Dummy tables. Descriptions of each of these planning document section are available [[TODO-planningdoc|on this wiki page]].

An exemplary planning document from public health researcher Mika Matsuzaki is [https://canvas.northwestern.edu online in Canavs]. Your diagram will likely be much less complicated than Matsuzaki's. Also, please don't be distracted by the fact that Matsuzaki does public health research. You can (and should!) emulate the form rather than the content. You can also check out [http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/99/6/1450.full the published paper] to see how the project wound up.

Please note that the Matsuzaki planning document includes everything except a "Measures" section. Your Measures section should include a two column table where column 1 is the name of each variable in your analysis and column 2 describes the operationalization of each measures and (if necessary) how you will create it.