Your assignment is to do a statistical analysis on the game of baseball in the National League West

Your final
project requires two components and some peer feedback.

Part I. Written Report

This will include components such as:

1.      
Cover/Title Page with presenter name(s)

2.      
background information that likely will need to
include some highlights from relevant literature in the field.

3.      
description of your data source

4.      
statistical tests you performed with narration
to fully describe them to your intended audience.

5.      
a conclusions and recommendation section

In terms of analyses, please see the
details provided below in the “For both components” section.

You could write this up in a variety of
ways. The two noted here in bold are preferred! Your options are to present
your work as:

·       a
PowerPoint presentation like something that could be delivered at a corporate
meeting or a conference,

·       a
formal report to be provided to the client (e.g., something you might bound in
a formal report sleeve),

Your work, no matter what format you
select, must be formal and professional, free of errors, and written in
appropriate professional voice and quality (grammar, spelling, case, syntax…).

Important – when
presenting information to a client, make sure your statistics are presented for
the general audience without too much jargon like the word “hypothesis” in the
main text. Instead, talk about the ideas you are testing, what you expected,
and what your analyses revealed. Be sure to include the specifics of
statistical results so that your work is clear and your audience will be
impressed by your sophisticated methods.

For both components, you should
include/address these elements (at minimum). I don’t want to encourage this
assignment to be formulaic, but at
the same time I do want to provide supporting guidance. Reports that don’t
include these elements will not represent passing work at the graduate level.

·      
Name your statistical consulting firm.

Don’t spend time on a brand identity or
logo, but do consider the concept of having a business like this and the work
of statistical consulting. Allow your imagination to take you into this role a
little.

Consider your mission as a representative
of your firm. Why might this matter? It will relate to your persuasive argument
below. You don’t need to include this, but allow yourself to think about it.

·      
Decide on your audience. Consider who you are
making a case to. You can convey this in an Author’s Note or as part of a
section of your presentation (if that makes logical sense to include in a
report to them). Some of you have a real audience while others will make one up
(make sure it is realistic).

·      
Then consider what argument(s) you are trying to
make. Tell a story to persuade your audience of the findings you are trying to
convey. This is where you will want to follow up by testing hypotheses and
making compelling argument(s) for significant finding(s).

o  
For this part, depending on what your subject
matter is, you should consult published research on the topic and connect your
work to established issues. If you are hired by a company to talk about
something like the gender wage/pay gap, you would logically include several
important points (a paragraph or slide or two) about the issue at the national
level, from a historic perspective, and from a labor rights or legal angle. You
would definitely have some references.

·      
Be very clear what your data are. Described your
source in appropriate detail for your audience. The nature of your data is part
of why people should (or should not) trust your claims.

·      
You should include some tables and figures to
capture the issues you are presenting. These should be accompanied by narration
that describes what you want your audience to glean from the presentation (both
in the written and orally presented form). Don’t waste space on junk displays –
ensure that what you include is of quality, is accurate and adds compellingly
to your message/story.

·      
Along the way, you should be including some
descriptive statistics. If information in the literature or from other sources
provides national or population information, be sure to make comparisons
between your data and those known figures.

·      
You must include some tests of statistical
significance. You will need to express that not just in numeric figures but in
words that your audience can understand.

Ø 
Tests of at least three ideas (hypotheses) with
appropriate statistical analyses, coming from at least two different types of
assessment approaches.

Ø 
These assessment approaches can include between
group comparisons (t-tests, ANOVA), analyses of relationships and trends (e.g.,
correlation and regression), expected frequencies (chi square), or more sophisticated
things like time-series analyses and more.

·      
Make summary statements, conclusions, and
recommendations (if appropriate).