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Homework: week 10

Due in class, Tuesday/Thursday Nov 2/4.

The data for this week's homework is the Nasa data from the ASA Expo '06.

For one of the two topics below, work through an exploratory data analysis:

  1. Determine an outcome variable from the data set,
  2. Bring the data set into a suitable format, i.e. you might have to select a subset, aggregate data, or both.
  3. Discuss the question based on graphical methods only (no modelling :)).
Make sure to include a (short) explanation of your picks/doing for each of the steps and don't forget to check the data quality!

Topics:

Deliverables:

Write a 1-2 page summary in Lyx/LaTeX - (the output is supposed to be 1 - 2 pages), where the code is embedded in the document using Sweave routines.
Submit a LaTeX file together with a pdf file of your work (use the filename firstname-lastname-hw10-X.Rnw and firstname-lastname-hw10-X.pdf) where X is either A or B depending on the section you're in (Tuesday is B, Thursday is A). The .snw needs to completely run on its own, e.g. use the url for file import.