For our GCSE statistics coursework, we were given the question Where are houses most expensive? To answer this question I have posed the hypothesis House Prices for 3 bedroom detached houses in the North of England are cheaper than those in the s

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Statistics coursework

Hypothesis: ‘House Prices for 3 bedroom detached houses in the North of England are cheaper than those in the south of England. Therefore the south is a more expensive region’.

Hypothesis and strategy

For our GCSE statistics coursework, we were given the question ‘Where are houses most expensive?’ To answer this question I have posed the hypothesis ‘House Prices for 3 bedroom detached houses in the North of England are cheaper than those in the south of England. Therefore the south is a more expensive region’. I chose this hypothesis as the south stereotypically have been known for having more expensive houses and therefore its occupants enjoy a higher standard of living than those in the north. I need to gather evidence to support my hypothesis or not to support my hypothesis. Also I have chosen a 3 bedroom detached house as this seems to be the average household that the bulk of the English population live in.

I will gather evidence to help my investigation by doing the following:

  • Firstly I will collect my data, 30 pieces from the north and 30 from the south, from different counties in the north and south.
  • From the data I have collected I will produce a histogram to determine the shape of the distribution which is important as this will then show me the best measure of average that needs to be used. If the histogram shows a normal distribution then I will use the mean as well as the standard deviation and if it is a skewed distribution then I will use the Inter Quartile Range (IQR) and the median.
  • Then I will make a box and whisker plot I will do this as this is a clearer indication if there is there is a positive or negative skew as well as clearly showing the median, IQR and range of the data and if there is any outliers within the data set. Also this is a really good way of comparing to sets of data.
  • For my calculations I will be doing outlier calculations, standard deviation and finally parsons measure of skewness.
  • Then I will go on to conclude the investigation.
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Data Collection and sampling.

I will be collecting secondary data, data that has already been collected and I will get this from the internet, the reason for collecting secondary data is that there is not enough time to collect to collect primary data and also because secondary data from is reliable as well as up to date. I used several websites one being , this website gave the postcodes for specific counties, so I could just type in the postcode into  which also has a specific search feature which I put into a ‘three bedroom detached house’ this narrows down ...

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