Statistical Investigation
Introduction
I have chosen to do this statistical coursework that uses data from
'Mayfield High School.' Although this is a fictitious school, the data
is based on a real school. As the data has been collected for me, it
is called secondary data.
I believe that this coursework will allow me to illustrate my ability
to handle data, use specific techniques and apply higher level
statistical maths by being able to use a variety of methods in order
to analyse and compare sets of data. During this project I will be
examining the relationships between the attributes of the pupils of
Mayfield High School. My aim is took produce a line of enquiry which
has two or more statistics regarding the pupils which are related to
each other.
This table shows how many boys and girls there are in each year group
at Mayfield High.
Year Group
Number of Boys
Number of Girls
Total
7
150
150
300
8
145
125
270
9
120
140
260
10
100
100
200
11
84
86
170
The total Number of students at the school is 1200
Data is provided for each pupil in the following categories:
* Name
* Age
* Year Group
* IQ
* Weight
* Height
* Hair colour
* Eye colour
* Shoe size
* Distance from home to school
* Usual method if travel to school
* Number of Brothers or sisters
* Key stage 2 & 3 results in English, Mathematics and Science
From the abovementioned, I need to pick several types of data to base
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