Stata 3 is due Tuesday, March 23rd. This project was formerly known as the "final version of Stata 2", but has been renamed to distinguish it from the "first draft of Stata 2" that you have already turned in.
For this assignment you will turn in a report with the following sections:
1. Introduction
2. Data Description (define your variables and transformations)
3. Empirical Results
4. Conclusions
You will focus on visits, but may also work with pages. You should check for the existence of the following patterns in the data and measure the magnitude of each effect.
1. Day of the week.
2. Growth over time using monthly figures.
3. Special days of the year.
4. Relation to the typical U.S. academic calendar.
What I am looking for is a few pages where you demonstrate that you can put together descriptive statistics and graphs. Think of yourself as a $100 per hour statistical consultant getting paid to analyze traffic at this web site so that the owner can plan for next year.
Posted by bparke at March 15, 2004 01:42 PM