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Introduction to Maths Statistics Coursework

For my year 11 coursework project I have been asked to complete a statistics project. The aim of my coursework project is to demonstrate as many data handling skills as possible in the form of a report on a statistical hypothesis. I have decided to demonstrate my knowledge by using the line of enquiry of Height and Weight as this is continuous data and will therefore give me better accuracy, more data and will make it easier to compare the certain types of data which I will collect. The information is about the fictional school 'Mayfield High School'. I have been given data on all children attending this school and their heights and weights in the form of an Edexcel spreadsheet.

As the school consists of 1183 children I have decided to take a stratified sample on each year group. I chose stratified sampling as my method of sampling as it uses the proportion of each group in the sample matching the proportion of each group in the entire population. I chose the sample size of 10% as this is easily divided and presented to other people. The method of stratified sampling