# Project proposal

This planning document will also form the introduction of your 
argument.

## Overarching Question

### What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?

**A sleep study using males and females using bedtimes/wakeup times and hours of sleep for the weekday, for kids ages 11-14, to see how much sleep students are getting during the week and if there is a difference between ages and males and females. Also does their attendance percentage in school correlate with more sleep.
I am interested in this becasue I teach 11-14 year olds


*This should be the big picture question that you ask; use at least 5
sentences to describe why you are interested in it.*

Does a high attendance percentage >95%, have a relationship with high sleep hours per night (>7hrs. per night) as well as age and gender. Does this relationship differ between males and females and ages. Overall does age, gender, and sleep hours have a relationship with high attendance, >95%?

### What specific research questions will you investigate?

*List 2-4 specific research questions. Each should be answerable 
using your data set.*

Average sleep for females
Average sleep for males
Average wakeup time for females
Average wakeup time for males
Average attendance % for males
Average attendance % for females
Average sleep for 11,12,13,and 14 year olds
Average sleep for 11.12.13.14 year old males/females


## Data source

### What data set will you use to answer your overarching question? 

*Give the title of your data set and provide a link to your data.*

Sleep, age and gender as it relates to attendance

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hB269WnLnm71C6WXjyBM9blWSF8X1Zf-nNqvftU6E94/edit?usp=sharing



### Where is this data from?

*Describe the source of the data set--not just where you downloaded it, but
the person or organization who gathered the data. Explain why you trust them.*

Changing school start times: impact on sleep in primary and secondary school students Open Access
Lisa J Meltzer, Kyla L Wahlstrom, Amy E Plog, Matthew J Strand

### What is this data about?

*Describe the nature of the data in the dataset, including the number of rows 
and some of the columns which will be important to you.*

number of rows=50
gender
attendance_percent
hrs_sleep

## Methods 

### How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?

*For each research question, explain what you will do with the data set 
to answer the question, and how you will present your answer (e.g. a chart or a table).*