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Week 6 (Select Topic)

Pick a topic for one of these areas and submit for approval. This is Part I of 4 towards the Final Research Paper.

Acceptable Areas:

Select a topic for your research paper using any of the statistical methods that we discussed in the course as it relates to your area of interest in engineering, retail business, banking industry, health science, medicine, etc.

The final draft of this paper will be due in week 14 of the session. To help with the preparation, submit a one- to two-page outline containing the following headings, and include a summary of what will be discussed under each heading:

· Topic and statistical method.

· Statement of the problem.

· Review of the Literature.

· Conclusion.

Find three relevant research articles which(we need 10 sources in the final paper):

· Support the importance of your problem,

· Discuss previous work on modeling/analysis in the area, and

· Cover technical aspects of the methods from class.

Scholarly articles can be found in the UC Online Library, in databases such as JSTOR or ProQuest. At least three of your articles must be peer-reviewed, full-text articles from scholarly journals.

Week 8 (Annotated Bibliography)

Project - Annotated Bibliography This is Part II of 4 towards the Final Project. Using APA format, find at least 10 peer-reviewed sources (from industry articles, journals, academic and professional textbooks, and case studies) which will support your selected and pre-approved Research Paper Topic . Include them as references in APA format, write a summary of each article considered. At the end of your summary indicate the usefulness of the article in support of your Final Project Paper.  Remember, that within this Final Project Paper you will need to cite from each and every source in your references. You may not use Wikipedia or Webopedia as a reference. The Final Project must be a research paper using statistical techniques that has been approved by the instructor, using knowledge gained in the course.

Week 10 (Final Paper Outline including at least ten references from the Annotated Bibliography -- week 8 assignment)

Project Outline This is Part III of 4 towards the Final Project. Using APA format, create an outline (headers and 1-2 sentence description of content) for your paper. Make sure you pull info as your citations' plan from your annotated bibliography. Submit an attachment to this assignment.

Week 14 Research Paper Final

Project Paper needs to have the following:

1. This is Part IV of 4 - the Final Paper: This Final Project Paper must be been pre-approved in earlier weeks by your instructor, using knowledge gained in the course.

2. The Paper Topic must be the one approved earlier

3. It must follow the Paper Outline submitted earlier

4. It must utilize the Paper Bibliography submitted earlier

· your references must be formatted according to APA Guidelines

· you must use all 10 sources you supplied as Annotated Bibliography sources

· these sources should be from industry articles, journals, academic and professional textbooks, and case studies

· you may not use Wikipedia or Webopedia as a reference

5. The Project Paper

· must be around 10 to 15 pages – with full APA formatting 

· will follow a conventional report format (introduction, abstract (optional), body, conclusion, and references)

· rubric in the syllabus will be used for the paper

· Turnitin % must be below 15%

· Rubric in syllabus will be used to grade your paper - please review

 

The Paper must be posted for Peer Review in the forum as the last part of the Forums’ discussion assignments (week 15).