MSCI609 Term Paper F2021
Here I provide some guidelines for the term paper. Please note there are 4 deliverables. I will post
marking schemes for each deliverable soon.
1. In Learn go to “Term Paper”, “Term Paper Data”, and download all 6 COVID data sets.
2. Unzip the data and read the questionnaire. Decide if you are interested in the topic and whether
you can create meaningful hypotheses using relevant questions.
3. Generate 3 to 5 hypotheses.
4. This is purely an example. Let us assume that you have daily air quality index data for 500
randomly selected cities. For each city you have daily data on number of admissions to hospital
related to breathing problems. You also have independent variables related to demography and
wealth. A possible hypothesis is: “H0: Air pollution does not cause breathing problems”. Another
hypothesis could be: “H0: Higher air pollution levels do not increase hospital admissions for
breathing problems”. Your regression equation will resemble this:
= 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + (1)
