Students will be assigned a published data analysis from a peer-reviewed journal. All studies assigned use publicly available data. Each student will be responsible for finding and acquiring the publicly available data as a necessary step in the data analysis, providing real-world data acquisition experience to the group. Using Excel, each group should first examine the data to determine if it does, indeed, correspond to the data findings of the assigned study. Student can use additional data and alternative estimation methods, among other possibilities. Students will submit the Excel file used, including the data, graphs, and analysis output. Students may use another statistical software package if desired (e.g. SAS, STATA, SPSS), but must still submit all files.
