STAT PROJECT

Potential Project Ideas

Surveys (make sure to include information to do analysis with – gender, age, type of student, etc…):

· Favorite ______ (fill in the blank – candy, soda/pop, artists)

· Political candidate preferences

· Facilities on campus (survey people about how often they use a service or how much they enjoy the workout facilities, etc…)

· Sleeping habits, texting habits, study habits, time spent on social media

· Future expectations of UIndy students – what percentage of students expect to be married within 5 years of graduation? Do the answers vary between males and females?

· GPA vs where a student sits in class (front, middle, back of room)

Experiments or Observational Studies:

· Color distribution of M&M’s compared to what the website says

· Economy vs name-brand products

· Observing people at locations on campus or around Indy (while sitting in the student center, do you see people with backpacks or messenger bags or no bags at all, etc…)

· Microwave popcorn popping comparison

· Distance to throw/hit a sports ball (golf ball, football)

· Time to do something (run, swim, make x number of baskets)

· Time waiting in line at Wal-Mart

· Taste testing

· Book price (number of pages, type - fiction vs non-fiction)

· Airfare cost (distance, how far in advance it was scheduled, time of day to depart, day of the week to depart)

Available Data:

· Compare census information in different regions of the state

· Temperature and crime

· Church attendance on days with and without Holy Communion

Some websites to check out:

· http://statweb.calpoly.edu/chance/stat217/projects.html

· http://economics-files.pomona.edu/StatSite/Project.html