Advice on your individual report

Advice on your individual report

by Darlene Goldstein -
Number of replies: 0
hello, I am in the process of sending out data sets to those who have sent me their topic requests ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE PREVIOUS MESSAGE - EXACTLY. As a reminder, your email to me MUST conform to the following:

Please send me an email where the subject is EXACTLY one of:

  • survival
  • logistic
  • glm
  • discrete
  • gwas

(all lower case letters and WITHOUT the dot) and NO message content.

If your message deviates in any way from these instructions, I am likely to miss it. The subject of the email should be one of the 5 topics, there should be NO message content at all, including any attachment or signature. Please do not try to be 'creative', it will only delay my sending you a data set.

Please understand that there are 300 of you that I need to keep track of, so I appreciate all your help !!

I also re-iterate here the WARNING about communication between students (and other persons and / or entities, please see below regarding AI) regarding your individual report:

NOTE: As a reminder, you MUST work on this individual analysis and report ALONE. Your analysis and report should represent YOUR OWN WORK ONLY. DO NOT COMMUNICATE WITH ANYONE in ANY WAY about this project. If you have ANY question or problem, please ask ONLY ME and NOT anyone else.

I will consider ANY violation of this policy as PLAGIARISM (PLAGIAT) and will report any suspicion of plagiarism/plagiat to the Vice-présidence académique – Affaires juridiques. I have reported previous students, who ended up being sanctioned for violating this rule, including getting a course note of 1, so please 


        |==> DO NOT TEST ME ON THIS <==|


If you have ANY questions, please don't hesitate to ask ME and ONLY ME - NOT the assistant, NOT any current or previous (or future) student, NOT any friends or 'experts' that you might know or have access to, NO ONE OTHER THAN ME. 

PLEASE do not risk your course note or your EPFL career by asking or communicating with anyone else besides me.

Here are some examples of what I consider as communication (non-exhaustive list, meaning there may be other things that I also consider as communication):

  • Talking / emailing / messaging / any other form of communication to other students, current, previous or future, or any other person or entity (please see below regarding AI) about WHICH TOPIC you have chosen
  • Talking / emailing / messaging / any other form of communication to other students, current, previous or future, or any other person or entity (please see below regarding AI) about WHICH DATA SET you are analyzing

  • Asking via ANY FORM OF COMMUNICATION other students, current, previous or future, or any other person or entity (please see below regarding AI) how to CODE OR WRITE ANY PART of your analysis / report, including (but not limited to) 'just' how to read in the data, how to set graphical parameters, how to get an RMarkdown file to work, etc.
  • Using any form of AI (artificial intelligence) to write your report, i - for this, you need to refer to primary (or at most secondary) sources; please see, for example:

      https://crk.umn.edu/library/primary-secondary-and-tertiary-sources

Discussing ANY aspect of your work with ANYONE at ANY TIME - over coffee / a meal / work break / sleep over. These aspects include conversation that you might consider as banal, such as 'I had such a hard time with just reading in the data', 'this is taking longer than I expected', 'could you please just help me out a little, I'm getting slammed with all my other work now', etc. You are safest if you do not consider this report or anything about it as a possible topic of any kind of conversation.
Although you are NOT permitted to use any form of AI, you ARE permitted to carry out your own internet searches regarding how to carry out relevant analyses or information about your data set, including any journal papers describing and / or analyzing the same data set, or example R analyses, and synthesize material that you gather / learn from those. Just make sure that you include all sources in your references, otherwise I can consider your work as PLAGIARIZED / PLAGIAT.

If you have ANY question or doubt, please do not hesitate to check with me. 
HINT: if what you are considering involves any form of communication with any outside entity (that is, outside of you, me and permitted sources that you reference), it is most likely NOT permitted.

I apologize for the repetitive nature of this warning, but in the past there have been several students who have not taken these instructions sufficiently seriously to avoid a negative impact on their academic plans / careers - including getting a course note of *1*. My expectations are meant to be CLEAR -- I don't want any negative consequences for any of you, which you can avoid by simply FOLLOWING THE RULES !!

Best regards,
Darlene