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The Structured External Assignment promotes understanding of the course material. Collecting, organizing, and analyzing data using statistical methods is the cornerstone of this course.

There are four milestones for this project: topic selection, proposal, data collection, and final draft. Since each milestone is used to complete remaining components, each one must be completed prior to moving on with the project.

Each student will select a unique question that they would like to answer. Each question will be answered by collecting, organizing and analyzing data using methods learned in this class. Specifically, each student is required to analyze data using a hypothesis test. Each student must have a unique topic. Students who are repeating the course must select a new topic. The following list is meant to stimulate ideas: these topics may not be used by students.

Sample ideas:

-Are gender and political party related? (Test of Association hypothesis test)
-Does the number of customers waiting in line vary each day of the week? (Goodness of Fit hypothesis test)
-Does a specific method of learning improve grades? (Two sample hypothesis test for means)
-Does summer training reduce the rate of fall sports injuries? (Two sample hypothesis test for proportions)