Project - Milestone 01

Project - Milestone 01 - due 10/13/2021

For your class project (30% of your final grade), there will be 3 milestones. For this first milestone, please prepare a report with the following:

[Cover Page]
- Your name,
- date and
- a title for your project (for milestone 1 the title can be a draft idea you can update later as needed)
[Dataset Description] A description of your data/dataset - include:
- a description of the source(s) of your data files and elements
- what protocol you followed to request/obtain the data
- do you have any/all or part of your data? if not, how soon do you expect to have all of the data you need to complete your project? what hurdles do you/did you have to overcome in getting the data
[Background/Rationale]
- Provide background details on your project and dataset;
- provide a rationale for why you are doing these analyses and
- what you hope to find and
- what questions you plan to address
[Research Questions/Aims]
- List 2 to 3 research questions you wish to answer with your project
- what are the aims of your project? and
- why are these important?
[Anticipated Problems/Limitations] Given what you know at the moment,
- what problems do you anticipate
  - (hurdles to get the data;
  - data that may be missing/incomplete;
  - data that may not measure exactly what you want but are reasonable proxies/representative of what you wanted to measure/evaluate)
- and any other limitations to note
  - (sample is not the best representation of your intended population;
  - under/oversampling issues;
  - convenience sample/observational data versus randomized clinical trial);
- etc.