This is an old revision of the document!
Research Projects
This is targeted at undergraduate research projects of the type I facilitate in my Research Methods and Advanced Research Methods courses. These suggestions and tools are likely to be insufficient for other kinds of projects.
What to study?
Hypotheses and research questions
Literature reviews
Research designs by variable measurement scale
Numerical outcome (Y)
Multiple categorical predictors
Multiple numerical predictors
Numerical and categorical predictors
Binary outcome (Y)
If you're in my class, please try to avoid this. It can be done in ways (conceptually and functionally) similar to designs with a numerical outcome variable, but you will need to learn how to set things up a bit differently, and you will need to learn how to interpret some new kinds of statistics.
Categorical outcome (Y)
If you're in my class, don't do this.