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Capitvlvm IV

Sleep × Exam Performance

Academic Research · Rhodes College · Fall 2024

The story

A course research project investigating the relationship between sleep patterns and exam performance among undergraduate students.

I cleaned the survey dataset in Python, then moved to R for the modelling — linear regression plus a hierarchical layer to capture per-cohort variance. The goal was never a clickbait correlation; it was understanding where the data genuinely supported a claim and where it did not.

The deliverable was a written analysis with reproducible code and plots honest enough to argue against.

Marks in the margin

  • Cleaned and reshaped a student-survey dataset for analysis.
  • Fit linear and hierarchical models to estimate effect size.
  • Produced diagnostic plots readable enough to critique the model fit.
  • Wrote the results up for course review.