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Tutorial materials for Writing a Report on Data

Part 1: Analysis of data

Weeks 2-5 are dedicated to help with your analysis. Set out as follows:

In week two the tutor will introduce the dataset and problem.
For week three you will plot out the data and bring to class, you will need to remove bad data and plot logarithm of each variable. Why?
For week four you will perform a linear correlation and linear regression (and related hypothesis test). We will discuss the p-value in more detail.
For week five you will apply the regression equation to to the other dataset to make a prediction. Error analysis will also be considered.