IEE 380 Fall23 Mini Project Directions - Tagged

IEE 380 Fall 2023 Mini-Project Objectives The purpose of this project is to give students the experiences of (a) collecting both discrete and continuous data, (b) creating histograms of discrete and continuous data, (c) determining confidence intervals on the variances (or standard deviations). Directions 1. Collect or find between 25 and 49 observations from discrete data of your choice. 2. Compute the sample mean and sample standard deviation of the observations from the discrete data. 3. Make a histogram of the discrete data. You may use any histogram-creation app or software of your choice so that it looks professional. Do not hand-draw the histogram. 4. For the discrete data, create a 95% or 99% (your choice) 2-sided confidence interval on the standard deviation. 5. Collect or find between 25 and 49 observations from continuous data of your choice. 6. Compute the sample mean and sample standard deviation of the observations from the continuous data. 7. Make a histogram of the continuous data. You may use any histogram-creation app or software of your choice so that it looks professional. Do not hand-draw the histogram. 8. For the continuous data, create a 95% or 99% (your choice) 2-sided confidence interval on the standard deviation. 9. Write up your findings using the template provided in the last pages of this document. 10. Upload your report as a Word doc or docx (no pdfs permitted) to the Mini- Project Upload in the Mini-Project module on Canvas before 11:59 pm AZ time Monday, November 20, 2023. Copyright October 2023 by L. Chattin. May not be posted to any website without permission from L. Chattin and Arizona State University.

The best data choices are ones that relate to your major and that have a relevance to your academic and career interests. Other good data choices are ones that are, indeed, relevant, but may not necessarily be related to your major. You may not use video game data, GPA data, sports data, athlete data, COVID data, candy data, or data that is just plain silly. If you’re not sure you have chosen a good data set, ask me. ** FYI -- I am not calling video game, GPA, etc. data “silly”. “Silly” is its own category. If you’re not sure you have chosen a good data set, ask me. Discrete Data Suggestions Continuous Data Suggestions Number of times that n people switched majors Home prices of n homes for a certain ZIP code and a certain square-footage Number of siblings in a sample of n people Number of miles from campus that n people live Number of times n people enrolled in <insert a course> Loading time for a certain website for n attempts Number of times n people have visited their academic advisor this year Resting pulse of n males (or n females) Number of days the temperature was > 115 over the past n years Systolic or diastolic blood pressure of n males (or n females) Number of credit hours n people are taking this semester Gas price at n locations in the same regional area for a single day Number of times n people have gone to office hours this semester Price of the same item at n grocery stores Number of homes for sale in a certain ZIP code over the past n months Weight of n items (same item) Score on a basic 10-question calculus quiz Length of n items (same item) Grading The data quality and analysis accuracy, along with grammar, spelling, organization, and technical writing professionalism will comprise the project grade There is a checklist provided at the end of the report template. Use it to ensure your project document conforms to technical writing requirements. Copyright October 2023 by L. Chattin. May not be posted to any website without permission from L. Chattin and Arizona State University.

o If an empty file or wrong file is uploaded, the project grade will be a 0. o All submissions will be 100% pair-wise compared to other students in the class and other IEE 380 submissions for the past 4 years using Turnitin. If your report is found to have plagiarized material from any website or person, an academic integrity violation has likely occurred and a report will be filed and reported to the dean’s office if it is determined a violation has occurred. You may not use any AI such as ChatGPT. o You may not collaborate with any other student. o You may not use any “tutors” for help outside of ASU’s Writing Center. o You may not post this assignment to Chegg.com for help. o You may not write computer programs to generate data. *Collect* the data. o You may not use any AI such as Chat GPT to assist you. o You are not permitted to use any portion of any team project reports from previous semesters from friends, Chegg.com, CourseHero.com, or any other source. You will be reported to the dean’s office for an Academic Integrity Violation if this occurs. Reviews Do not send files of your work-in-progress to me or any TAs. Instead, attend office hours if you have questions or need clarification. I am also available for Zoom appointments. Use me and the TAs to assess the math and technical content of your project. Use the checklist to help you make your report look professional, and Google “professional technical memo” to see examples of good technical writing. Copyright October 2023 by L. Chattin. May not be posted to any website without permission from L. Chattin and Arizona State University.

Copyright October 2023 by L. Chattin. May not be posted to any website without permission from L. Chattin and Arizona State University.

Continuous Data Table Show the raw continuous data here, in a table. Include units and any other necessary descriptors. Have a sentence before the data is presented. Example: “The data collected for this project may be seen in the following table:” Continuous Data Histogram Show the histogram of the continuous observations, remembering to properly label axes. Use the authors’ recommended number of bins from Ch. 6. Clearly state the sample mean and sample standard deviation values by the histogram, including units. Show the equations (not with numbers) you used to compute the sample mean and sample standard deviation and use the equation editor. Does your continuous histogram have the shape of any continuous distribution we have studied and if so, which one? If not, what might be an appropriate pdf for this data? Continuous Data Confidence Interval For the continuous data, show the equations you used for the upper and lower bounds of the confidence interval on the variance (or standard deviation, your choice). Use the equation editor. Clearly state the upper and lower bound values and remember to include the units. References If you used any outside sources (internet), cite here using APA formatting. If you did not use any sources other than our notes and text, delete this section of the report. You do not need to cite our slides and do not need to cite our text. Copyright October 2023 by L. Chattin. May not be posted to any website without permission from L. Chattin and Arizona State University.

IEE 380 Mini-Project Technical Writing Rubric/Checklist This checklist is meant to help your document to be grammatically sound. Each non- compliant item below will lose FIVE (5) points .  Only pages 4 and 5 from this document are used in your report. All other pages should be excluded.  This project report template has been used.  The data collected are provided as tables and are not broken up over page breaks. You can reduce the font size in a table and use multiple columns to make it fit and look neat.  All text in this report is black. Remove all yellow highlighting.  Equations are shown using a math editor. Do not use ^ for exponents, for example.  Use subscripts. Do not use x1; use x 1 , for example.  This report has been checked using Grammarly. If you are not familiar with Grammarly, go to grammarly.com.  This document is written in first person or third person.  There are no contractions in this report (i.e., do not use isn’t, wasn’t, don’t, etc.)  There are no sentence fragments in this report.  The font sizes (e.g., 12 pt.) and styles (e.g., Times New Roman) are consistent  Top, bottom, and side margins are consistent.  Names of software are capitalized (Minitab, Excel, for example).  The sentences are spaced at 1.5 (go to Format, Paragraph , and under Line Spacing , drag to 1.5)  New paragraphs are indented.  Each of the following words that appear in this report will be considered an incident of non-compliance and a 5-point deduction will be incurred. For example, if you have used the words lots , you and felt , three incidences of non-compliance have occurred and 15 points will be lost. Verify that none of the following words appear in your document: you literally could of you’re basically would of your essentially should of alright totally alot due to the fact that really feel irregardless pretty felt thing(s) lots cheap sort of mostly kind of prove/proves/ proved overall Copyright October 2023 by L. Chattin. May not be posted to any website without permission from L. Chattin and Arizona State University.