This week is a final project workshop: students present their final projects.

What to bring

• Presentation: a short slide deck (PDF recommended) or a Quarto HTML report you can navigate live.
• One “main result” figure/table ready to show.
• Backup: a PDF export of your slides/report in case of technical issues.
• Presentation files are for the in-class talk and do not replace the required final .qmd submission.

Timing (default; may be adjusted in class)

• 8–10 minutes presentation
• 3–5 minutes Q&A

Recommended structure (what to say, in order)

1. Research question (1 slide)
2. Dataset + design (1 slide): variables + data structure (levels, repeated measures, items)
3. Methods (1–2 slides): which models and why
4. Main results (1–2 slides): one key figure/table + interpretation
5. Checks (1 slide): diagnostics / robustness / convergence / bias checks (as appropriate)
6. Limitations + next steps (1 slide)

What to show (minimum)

• One model-based plot (predicted means/probabilities, effect plot, or forest plot)
• One short results table (key coefficients/effects + CI)
• One “trust check” appropriate for your method(s), e.g.:
  • diagnostics / influence (LM/GLM)
  • overdispersion (Poisson)
  • convergence + singularity + random-effects justification (LMM/GLMM)
  • fit indices + loadings (CFA/SEM)
  • funnel plot / sensitivity (meta-analysis)

Reproducibility requirement (non-negotiable)

Your final project must be reproducible:

• Your submitted .qmd must render without errors from a fresh session.
• Do not use setwd() and do not use absolute paths.
• Your data must be accessible (built-in dataset, or downloaded from a stable public source, or otherwise arranged with the instructor).

Before submission, run (locally):

quarto render your_project.qmd

Where the rules live

• Final project requirements and rubric: see Final project (this Week 15 section).
• Submission rules: see How to Submit Assignments - Quarto (.qmd) Basics (Introduction section).