Honours Thesis Timeline

Task Notes Ideally Deadlines Status

1.Data pre-processing

Finalising participants Check with Matilde, Finalise participants 26 March 29 March Done

Match ASD & TD Check with Diana for 2x2 ANOVA (DV; IV?) 30 march 1 April Done

participants on age+sex

Image cleaning 5 minutes each image x ~150 = 12.5 hours 10 April 13 April Done

Image orientation 1 minute each image x 150 = 2.5 hours 15 May 17 May Done

Landmark annotation 8 minutes each image x 150 = 20 hours 29 June 1 July In progress

Complete (with Inclusion vs exclusion 1-7 July

feedbacks from Run checks on annotation – Diana will flag

supervisor) mistakes and re-annotate

2.Data Analysis

Preliminary Analyses Finalise participant lists (descriptive 10 July 14 July

statistics)

- Ratio ASD vs TD

- Gender

Check for outliners

Match participants on Age (gender)

- Readings on gender and sleep

problems

Statistical Analyses Calculate distances? 28 July 31 July

Create a ‘total’ face?

Access to sleep data (available soon)

Hypothesis 1: Autistic children will have

increased heights of upper and anterior
 lower face, more retrusive and posteriorly
inclined mandible, protruding upper
incisors, shorter nasal height with upturned
nose and larger nose width than TD children
- Comparing autistic children or
autistic children with sleep problems;
Hypothesis 2: there will be a positive
correlation between these facial features
and the extent of sleep difficulties in
children with ASD.
Calculate distances between two landmarks
based on their coordinates

√ ( x 1−x 2 ) +( y 1− y 2 ) + ( z 1−z 2 )
2 2 2

and measure angles based on sin cos

Standardised angular and distance

measurements

Complete (with 3 August

feedbacks)

3.Writing Thesis

Commence End of July – Start of August

First draft Submitting Intro (structure)- bullet points 27 July 1 August

And Method - First draft

Submitting First draft of Introduction 21 August 23 August

Submitting First draft of Results 17 August 19 August

Complete final draft Submitting Second draft of Introduction and 12 14

(based on supervisor Methods September Septembe

feedbacks) r

Submitting edited draft Results 14 16

September Septembe

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Complete Due date 6 October