The topic is the rising of housing cost in Los Angeles leads to the rise of homelessness.
1: The Research
A. Academic Research: What is a problem in our community?
- Determine a problem in your community that interferes with the “public good”.
Explain why you consider this issue a “problem.” - Find (atleast)two academic sources(i.e. journal articles)that provide insightinto
why thisissue/problemisimportantin your community (i.e. how college affects
futureearnings, howtheavailability offresh produce improves diet, etc.). For each
article:
a. Summarize the findings
b. State any statistics that are important to your problem
c. Explain how this article relates to your problem
B. StatisticalResearch. - Determine what additional information should be known about your community.
a. Conduct a survey of atleast 50 members of your community (more is better)
that helps provide insight into the problem.
i. Ask atleast one questionwhose answeris a qualitative(categorical)
variable and two questions whose answer is a quantitative
(numerical) variable.
ii. Explain the shortcomings oftheway that you conducted yoursurvey or
how you provided a simple random sample.
iii. Reportthe results of yoursurvey using appropriate statistical
Techniques
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