Description

For your final project, you will analyze your own data and write a short report of the results. The goal of this assignment is to translate the skills you have learned in PSY 611 and PSY 612 into your own work as a scientist. It is also an opportunity to get feedback on your current research. This project emphasizes careful examination of data prior to analysis, interpretation of statistical tests, and communication of results.

Analysis

Your analysis must include

  1. appropriate descriptive statistics.
  2. one inferential test using continuous predictors.
  3. one inferential test using at least one categorical predictor.

Be sure to include the statistical tests, interpretation of statistical tests, and any information on diagnostics or assumptions.

Report format

Your report should be written in Rmarkdown. It is strongly recommended that you use the papaja template, but if you have your own formatting preferences, you may use those instead. Be sure to include each of the following:

  1. a brief (one paragraph maximum) description of the research design, including the measurement of variables.
  2. your research question and hypotheses.
  3. written description of the results, including APA-formatted results of statistical tests and your interpretation of those results.
  4. at least one table in APA format.
  5. at least one figure, with a title and caption.

Be sure to interpret any information – statistical tests, figures, and tables – that you provide. Please note – this should not be a full manuscript (no introduction and discussion needed!), and you will certainly provide more information in this report regarding the analyses than you would in a traditional research article.

I don’t have data

If you will have data of your own to analyze in time for this assignment, please come see me (Sara).