In my coursework I am going to investigate the amount of words, letters and paragraphs in each sub-story on the pages where the main headlines are about the 'American Sniper'.

4

5,3,4,5

Monday, Oct 18th

2

4

5,2,5,4

Monday, Oct 18th

3

3

5,3,7

Monday, Oct 18th

4

3

3,4,9

Saturday, Oct 26th

5

5

8,6,2,5,3

Monday, Oct 28th

6

5

7,4,3,2,5

Story Number

Amount of Words

Amount of letters

01

469

2

10

468

3

96

395

4

95

454

5

59

303

6

35

634

Story 1

Letters in word

Tally

Frequency

2

1

3

20

4

22

5

8

6

6

7

9

8

8

9+

6

Story 2

Letters in word

Tally

Frequency

2

9

3

27

4

24

5

9

6

3

7

6

8

5

9+

6

Story 3

Letters in word

Tally

Frequency

6

2

3

3

23

4

8

5

8

6

8

7

3

8

3

9+

4

Story 4

Letters in word

Tally

Frequency

7

2

2

3

6

4

5

5

0

6

0

7

7

8

6

9+

9

Story 5

Letters in word

Tally

Frequency

2

2

26

3

4

4

31

5

22

6

5

7

9

8

8

9+

2

Story 6

Letters in word

Tally

Frequency

6

2

8

3

25

4

23

5

8

6

5

7

2

8

9

9+

9

Now that I have collected my data I will first calculate the mean number of letters to every word in the headlines. Next I will plot a scatter grapgh with all of the information collected in the tally charts. Followed by the type of correlation they show. Thirdly I will make a cumulative frequency table and a cumulative frequency graph along with the lower and upper quartiles and the interquartile range. Last of all I will plot a histogram and I will use standard deviation.

Story Number

Words in Headline

Amount of letters in each

Mean ( letters per word)

4

5,3,4,5

5+3+4+5= 17.

17 = 4.25

4

or 4 (rounded down)

2

4

5,2,5,4

5+2+5+4= 16

6 = 4

4

3

3

5,3,7

5+3+7 = 15

5 = 5

3

4

3

3,4,9

3+4+9 = 16

6 = 5.33

3

or 5 (rd down)

5

5

8,6,2,5,3

8+6+2+5+3= 24

24 = 4.8

5

or 5

6

5

7,4,3,2,5

7+4+3+2+5= 21

21 = 4.2

5

or 4

Cumulative Frequency Table (Graph on page 7)

Letters in word

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9+

Frequency

33

99

25

33

85

77

56

39

46

Cumulative Frequency

33

32

257

390

475

552

608

647

693

Upper Quartile = 5.6 letters

Median = 3.6 letters

Lower Quartile = 2.3 letters

Inter quartile range = Upper Quartile - Lower Quartile

= 5.6 - 2.3

= 3.3 letters

Histogram (histogram on page 8)

Amount of letters

Frequency

Frequency density

> L <3

257

257 - 3 = 86

4> L <5

218

218 - 2 = 109

6> L <9+

218

218 - 4 = 55

Standard Deviation

x

x - x

( x - x )

01

-15

225

10

-6

36

96

-20

400

95

-21

441

59

43

849

35

9

361

x - x = 696 = 116 ( x - x ) = 3312

6

( x - x ) = 3312 = 552 ( x - x ) = 552 = 23.5

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