What are common elements of statistical projects, presentations, etc?
You generally start with a description of the research question and the data. You identify your dependent variable, and all the independent variables and any control variables used in the analysis. You describe the literature regarding previous studies in this area, and if you are building on or testing any of these studies, you want to say so. Then, you tell how the data are gathered, what the sample was, and other information to allow researchers to get a handle on whether they think there may be problems in the study that are caused by deficiencies or misunderstandings in the data gathering process. Next you describe the variables you have selected for your analysis, and what the theory is driving your selection of these variables. I think you put in your hypotheses (don’t forget the nulls) at this point. At this point you want to describe your analytical tools. Now this, of course, depends on what kind of variables you are using (binary, categorical, continuous) for both the depend
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