Mini Project 3

Spatial Mini Project

For this project, you and your partner should revisit your work in Checkpoint 6 and 7 and the feedback you received. You will update and revise this work for this project.

Your goal is to communicate about your research question about housing values in Ramsey County and the spatial methods we use to answer that question.

Your audience is a Stat 155 audience. You may choose your format, but you can use the template and bibliography file template, if you’d like.

For this mini project, your written communication must have fewer than 1500 words of text and up to three professional looking visualizations. Include code in your Rmd file but hide the output of your models. Do not create a table of model output; rather, summarize your conclusions based on the model output in words. You may want to include a few (~3 or less) coefficient estimates in your summary. Your written communication should include the following:

• An introduction to the historical and modern context of real estate in Ramsey County with parenthetical citations of relevant papers using bibtex
• An introduction to your research question and why it is important
• A discussion and justification of your model (neighbor structure, model type: SAR, CAR, Mixed Effects, Spatially Weighted; mean model) that explains WHY you made your choices
• A discussion of your conclusions based on the model and the limitations to the conclusions you can make.