General Topic of Interest: Drugs in Professional Sports Research Objective/Purpo
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Question
General Topic of Interest: Drugs in Professional Sports
Research Objective/Purpose:
The purpose of this study is to research the effects of Performance Enhancing Drugs on professional athletes
Research Question(s): What is short term and long-term effects of Performance Enhancing Drugs on professional athletes.
List and label the dependent and independent variables.
Independent Variable: The amount of performance enhancing drugs administered to the professional athletes.
Dependent Variable: The effect of performance enhancing drug in the short and long term.
**Describe the type of data you will collect. Be specific in identifying the nature of your data (nominal, ordinal, etc.).
**State what data analysis techniques would be appropriate to apply to your proposed study.
Explanation / Answer
Independent Variable: The amount of performance enhancing drugs will be recorded for the professional athletes which is a nominal variable or continuous variable.
Dependent Variable: The type of short term and long term effect recorded which is a ordinal variable or categorical variable.
Data Analysis: Here the independent variable is continuous and dependent variable is categorical hence the logistic regression will be used to see the effect of drugs in long term and short term.