Lab 03

Model comparison + Research topics!

Feb 10, 2025

Goals

• Start final project
• Lab 03: Model comparison

Final project

• Goal: Use the methods from STA 210 to analyze data and answer a research question developed by your team

• Primary deliverables:

  1. an in-person presentation about the exploratory data analysis and initial modeling

  2. a written, reproducible final report detailing your analysis

  3. a summary of your project highlights to share with the class

  4. a GitHub repository containing all work from the project

• There are periodic project milestones throughout the semester to help you work towards the primary deliverables

Today’s focus: Research topics

• Goals: Identify three potential research topics your team is interested in investigating and draft research questions.

• You do not need to have a data set at this point

• You can discuss the topics you put in the student survey to help generate ideas

• Submission (due Feb 16): All work for the project will be submitted in your team’s GitHub repo. You will receive feedback via an Issue on GitHub to model a workflow often used in practice.

🔗https://sta210-sp25.netlify.app/project

Today’s lab

Today’s lab focuses on using model comparison to choose a model that can be used to describe what makes the best candy.

🔗 https://sta210-sp25.netlify.app/labs/lab-03