2. The variables that you plan to use. One of these has to be treated as the dependent variable. In addition, there should be at least two independent variables. (Thus, a minimum of three variables should be chosen for your study).
3. The kind of analysis that you plan to perform. Since this is a writing project I am more interested in whether or not you are capable of successfully completing various sections in the template that I provided and end up with a coherent report. My advice is to keep this part simple and choose a conventional technique such as either linear regression (if your dependent variable is numeric) or logistic regression (if your dependent variable is categorical). This will give you more time to focus on other sections of the report. You can always bolster your analysis and results sections with basic analyses such as summary statistics, correlation analysis, various types of univariate and bivariate charts and tables.
4. Add a few sentences providing some background to the problem/question that you are thinking of addressing. For example, “I want to study the relationship between a country’s GDP and level of happiness (the idea is to test whether or not a higher income makes people happy)” or “I am interested in comparing the average sales of computer games across various gaming platforms (the idea is to test whether some platforms are more popular than others)”. Once you have formed your research question, make sure to include a few sentences that support your choice (i.e. why do you think studying this question is useful).
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