# Research Plan

**Group members:**

**Topic:**

**Date:**

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## 1. Research question

What are you investigating? (One sentence.)



## 2. Hypothesis

What do you expect to find, and why? What's your prior expectation —
is the effect plausible or a long shot?



## 3. Data sources

Where will your data come from? What variables will you use? What time
period does it cover? Have you downloaded the data and checked you can
open it in R?



## 4. Comparison / control

What are you comparing to? How will you isolate the effect of
interest? (e.g., "We'll compare wind farm capacity factors in Scotland
vs Southern England, controlling for turbine age.")



## 5. Potential confounders

What alternative explanations should you worry about? List at least
two confounders and describe how you'll address (or at least
acknowledge) them.



## 6. Analysis plan

What statistical tools do you anticipate using? (Descriptive stats,
t-tests, ANOVA, regression.) Link each tool to what you've learned or
what's coming in Weeks 6–8.



## 7. Division of labour

Who's doing what this week and next? Be specific.

| Team member | Task this week | Task next week |
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