Your statistics study team has just been given an assignment to see if there is an association or a cause and effect relationship between dally meditation and enhanced self reported energy level among students at your school. You have just two weeks to design and carry-out your study or experiment and
then submit your findings. You may assume a sample of 73 other statistics students from your school can serve as willing subjects available for participation
In an experiment or you have access to limited information from school records for a large sample of students who can be potentially surveyed or
interviewed, including
Name, Age, Gender, Graduating Class, Names and Ages of Siblings, GPA, Class Schedule, Extracurricular Activities
1. Identity the explanatory and response vanables
2. Determine if you are using an observational study or experiment and why.
3. Create a thorough design for your study or experiment including randomization, replication and control where appropriate. Include stratification or
blocking and explain how it is benencial in the context of your plan
4. It using an observational study define one possible confounding variable which may explain some or all of the potential cause and effect