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.

Answer 1

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.