Assignment Task
Research Questions:
- If an individual has played more or fewer total rounds of golf than their opposition, does it affect the amount of total winnings per round they will earn.
- What skills do individual female golfers need in order to gain more total winnings/ per round?
Methodology:
Describe all methods that you are using in your study. You do not have to list the specific SAS procedure by name in this section. Merely discuss the method within each specific procedure you are using.
For example, you do not state that you are using the ‘proc corr’ procedure, you describe and discuss the correlation analysis that is attempted within the ‘proc corr’ procedure.
Introduction:
This should explain everything below, this is when the reader understands what you intend on doing for your methodology, a brief introduction to methodology.
You may break up the methods section into various subsections if that suits the style of your writing.
- You need to provide the reader with an understanding on what methods you intend on using for your initial Analysis. Why you intend on conducting these methods, what is the reason behind conducting these procedures. This means that you should be explaining what methods you will be using to conduct your descriptive statistics, your correlations, your predictive modelling as well as selection techniques. You need to explain why you are using this methodology to answer your research question.
- For instance: you could be conducting histograms of your variables to see if they are normally distributed using skewness and kurtosis which will give you an idea of the distribution of the data.
- For Instance: You could be conduction your predictive modelling which will in turn help you understand which variables are more predictive of the response variable Y.
- These are just two examples; this should be done, but more importantly, you have the freedom to conduct as many methods as you want as long as it has a purpose and reason behind it.