Project and Project Proposal

Find or build a data set that can be used to model the relationship between independent predictors and a dependent outcome. The data set should contain between 50 and 1000 (or no less than 50) observations with a continuous outcome variable so that a linear model can be developed. It should contain no less than 5 predictor attributes and include both continuous and categorical variables.

The assignment will require you to submit a 10-15 page report showing how you used the concepts taught in this course to:

1. Develop several competing linear models.
2. Use model evaluation techniques to choose between competing models.

The report should be in an MS Word file.
The report will be worth 15 percent of the course grade.

Early in the course you are to submit a project proposal worth 5% of the course grade.

This proposal should include

1. A description of the data set and your objectives is analyzing the data. This should be in an MS Word file.
2. A JMP file containing the cleaned-up data that your are going to use in your analysis and report

Examples of successful projects from past courses include:

• Prices of House Resales
• Car Residual Value
• Air Pollution
• Soybean Production
• Price of Maize
• Precipitation
• Mechanical Properties of Blended Single Wall Carbon Nonotube Composites Admixed in Epoxy