Well, I finally turned in my NSF dissertation improvement grant that I had to write for my Processes of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology class! It was due at 5 pm today and I hit send on the e-mail just seconds before 5:01! Phew!
It is very uncustomary for a first semester grad student to have to write a grant like this, but I suppose it was a growing experience and I've learned a lot about the process.
One thing I realized is that I have a long way to go before I will be able to determine what kinds of statistical analyses to apply to my research. When I presented the material on experimental designs and statistical analyses, it seemed like such a neat little formula... all you have to know is if your independent variable and dependent variable are continuous or categorical and VOILA! you have the perfect recipe for your statistical analysis!
But it's not always that simple when you are trying to pick up a legacy project and work with a design that has been psuedoreplicated and has many uncontrollable confounding factors!
I still have so much to learn...
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3 comments:
congrats! best of luck on your proposal.
yeah, things are never as easy as they're made to look. hopefully, though, the readings and discussions will at least give you a framework on which to build.
Hey Rebecca - you're right, I think it is incredibly unusual for a first-semester grad student to write a big proposal like this. But I think you'll find it useful in the long-run, even if it's stressful now. Best of luck!
Cheers,
Nicole
Sweet. I hear that grant writing is a totally different process but a pretty practical and political one. Good luck! I thought that the chapter you presented did a good job of determining which test to use based on variable type.
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