Lab 10 UG Quants assignment: Research report

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Create your research report project from GitHub

  1. Access RStudio Cloud as usual.
  2. Make sure you are in your Quants lab group (not in ‘Your Workspace’).
  3. Click on the ‘New Project’ button and select ‘New Project from Git Repository’.
    New project from GitHub.

    Figure 10.1: New project from GitHub.

  4. Paste the following URL in the box and click ‘OK’: https://github.com/rafavdz/UGQuant-assignment2.
  5. You are all set! Just click on the project to access the contents.

10.3 Research report template

Once in your UGQuant-assignment2 project, open the Assignmet2-template.Rmd file in Pane 4 under the ‘Files’ tab, as shown below.

Template.

Figure 10.2: Template.

This template contains the following:

  • Suggested structure
  • Suggested word count for each section
  • Code necessary to run and present the results of a multivariate linear regression.

In essence, this is the basic structure to continue working towards writing your assignment. Of course, you can add, edit, and customize as much as you consider it appropriate. Remember, this is just a generic suggestion and you should address all the points required in the according to the best of your abilities. It is your time to shine!

10.4 Activity 1

  1. In the template, fill in the ‘author’ and ‘date’ space in the YALM at the top of the file with your student number and appropriate information using quotation marks.
  2. Knit the Rmd file as html (R studio will ask to install some packages, click ‘Yes’).
  3. In the output, look at the results of the table under the ‘Results’ section and identify the dependent and the independent variables. You can learn more about the meaning of this variables in the NILT documentation (click here to access the documentation).
  4. Identify the variables that are significant in this model.
  5. Discuss with your neighbour or tutor your interpretations. You can refer back to Lab 8 and Lab 9.

10.5 Activity 2

  1. Write one introductory paragraph in the ‘Introduction’ section of the template according to the guidance provided.
  2. Knit the document again.

10.6 Conclusion

We hope that by getting you familiar with this setting, you will succeed in writing your research report using all the knowledge and skills learnt during this course. Take this session to read the instruction for Assingment 2 and ask as much question as possible. This is the perfect time to have specialized one-to-one support from your tutor.

We wish you the best of luck!