Maths statistics coursework
My coursework will involve me investigating the relationships and correlations between the data in the Mayfield high spreadsheet. I will be analysing the data and portraying them in different statistical forms. I have decided to look at the height, weight, gender and age. By looking at these I can make a hypothesis and predict outcomes like as follows:
My first Hypothesis:
I predict that genders affect your weight e.g. boys are heavier than girls. I shall do this by using averages and means for boys and for girls and then comparing the two set to see. I think that boys will be heavier than girls of the same age, this is because of many different reasons, like body mass is higher for boys than girls. In my investigation I may find outliers that may offset my results. These I will try to exclude from my results as they may affect the accuracy of my results. I will have to also take in the fact that girls will be physically 2 years older in the first few years of the investigation this will change the results until both party’s girls and boys stop growing. Also girls may feel unacceptable to be certain weights so will be conscious on their weight more than boys.
