Assignments

Here you will find information about the assignments for QTM 385. There are ten of them, each worth 5% of your final grade. The assignments are designed to help you practice the concepts covered in class and to develop your data science skills.

Assignment submissions are typically due on Wednesdays at 11:59pm in the week following their publication. You may submit via Canvas (preferred) or email ().

I encourage you to complete assignments in Quarto or Jupyter Notebooks and submit them in html or PDF format (just because they are easier to read on Canvas). You can also submit them as a Word document, provided that code and results are included in the same document. The assignment folders contain the questions in many formats, including .qmd, .ipynb, and .docx, so you can use them as templates.

You will find the questions in the assignments folder on the course repository. You can also access them through the links below.

Assignment Timeline

Assignment Topic Due Date Link
1 Theory 10 September Assignment 01
2 Potential Outcomes 17 September Assignment 02
3 Sampling Distributions 24 September Assignment 03
4 RI, Blocking, Clustering, and Power 1 October Assignment 04
5 Non-Compliance 8 October Assignment 05
6 Attrition 15 October Assignment 06
7 Quarto, DeclareDesign, and Natural Experiments 22 October Assignment 07
8 Interference and Spillovers 29 October Assignment 08
9 Heterogeneous Effects 12 November Assignment 09
10 Sensitive Topics 19 November Assignment 10

Pre-Analysis Plan

The pre-analysis plan (PAP) is a document that outlines the research design, hypotheses, and analysis plan before the data are collected. It is a very important step in the research process, as it helps to prevent data mining and p-hacking. The PAP will be worth 20% of your final grade. Further instructions will be provided in the coming weeks.

Final Project

The final project will be a group effort. Detailed instructions will be discussed in class. The project will be worth 30% of your final grade.

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