M. Amin Banihashemi
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Title:
Research question: …
The originality of the research comes from that fact that …
The importance of the research is …
My interest in this area is from …
Background/Literature:
A search on the UofT library in this area/on this question yielded …
This paper showed that… which means in our data analysis…
The results of this paper relate to this question because…
The research question I will study relates to this are because…
In-text citation guidelinse for background:
Citing a website: A 2018 report from Statistics Canada (Provencher, Milan, Hallman, & D’Aoust, 2018) on the issue shows that …
Citing a book: (Peacock & Peacock, 2020)
Citing a journal paper: (von Elm et al., 2007)
Data source:
Main variables and their description. Why include them and how they help answer the question.
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Exploratory data analysis:
Table 1 shows that …
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Table 1. [title] explain main points of the table here.
Characteristic
Group 1
Group 2
P value
Age
75.5 ± 5.6
67.4 ± 2.3
… (a)
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(a) This symbol allows greater explaining at the table footnote for example type of test: Student’s t-test.
Figure 1 shows that … which justifies the use of method X and consideration of Y in the analysis.
Figure 1. Based on the bar chart quarterly earnings took a downward trend from 2015 to 2018.
Discussion of what is observed in the EDA:
The sample comprises individuals with the following characteristics…
I noticed that there is much missing data which means I will …
There were some variables that were skewed which means …
Linear model:
My research question can be answered using a linear model because…
I will be using Y as my response and use the predictors X because …
Some anticipated issues might be/A linear model is likely appropriate because…
Some things I plan to keep an eye on when working on my data analysis are…
References
Peacock, J., & Peacock, P. J. (2020). Oxford handbook of medical statistics (Second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Provencher, C., Milan, A., Hallman, S., & D’Aoust, C. (2018). Report on the Demographic Situation in Canada. Fertility: Overview, 2012 to 2016. Statistics Canada. Retrieved from http://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub//91-209-x/2018001/article/54956-eng.htm
von Elm, E., Altman, D. G., Egger, M., Pocock, S. J., Gotzsche, P. C., Vandenbroucke, J. P., & Initiative, S. (2007). The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. Lancet, 370(9596), 1453-1457. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61602-X
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