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From: Your name, Graduate Student Consultant

To: client name and address
Re: Assignment # or SCC id# number for client work
RESEARCH FIELD:
PROJECT TITLE:
1.0 - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
As part of your description, consider the following:
Type of study [Designed experiment, bser!ational study, "ample sur!ey#
"tage of the experiment [$lanning stage or Analysis stage#
1.1 - RESEARCH QUESTIONS
%hat are the o!erarching research &uestions that the client is targeting'
Question 1:
Question 2:

(order them by priority if rele!ant)

1.2 - STATISTICAL QUESTIONS
%hat are the specific statistical &uestions that the client needs ad!ice about'
Question 1:
Question 2:

(order them by priority if rele!ant)

1.3 - VARIABLES OF INTEREST
%hat is(are) possible explanatory and response !ariables'
1.4 - STUDY DIAGRAM
*nclude an annotated diagram of the study+
2.0 - EPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS !EDA"
,xplain in terms that the client will understand what you initially did with the data and why+
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%hat did your ,DA tell you'
/ow did your ,DA influence what your next steps in the analysis were+
3.0 1STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
Describe statistical analysis in terms that your client will be able to understand and perhaps use in
presenting their own research+
4.0 - RECOMMENDATIONS
Question 1:
Question 2:

(follow a parallel structure for order)

2.0 - RESOURCES
0ist resources that your client might find useful
3.0 - CONSIDERATIONS
(for example)
2imitations to t+e recommendations
Concerns ou ma +a-e about t+e stud
Tec+nical comments
At the end of the report, you may want to thank your client for the opportunity to work on this
pro1ect+
3nclude labeled figures for an c+arts1 grap+s t+at are part of t+e report4 detailed information
and a cop of t+e program used s+ould be referred to in an appendi)5
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