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Find a book on the selection of colleges, for example Peterson's guide.  These can usually be found at the reference desk of almost any public library.  There is a host of data about specific colleges and universities in these manuals—tuition, enrollment, faculty student ratios, average SAT scores, etc.

Your task is to examine a relationship that may exist.  For example, you might think that room and board fees are related to the size of the college (don't use this example.)  Using data from at least 20 different schools, prepare a one to two page report on the variables as well as the relationship between them.  Your report, should contain some descriptive statistics on the variables in the relationship, as well as the results of a least squares estimate of the relationship. You must use at least two right hand side variables, one of which must be a continuous variable and one of which must be a dummy variable.

The report should be structured in three parts.  First, describe the relationship you believe exists between the variables.  Secondly, describe the data and your statistical results.  Finally, your conclusion about whether or not the relationship exists.