Niall Cottrell 10S                Statistics Coursework

Statistics Coursework- Plan

I am going to be basing my course work on swimming time, I am using swimming times because all of the data is continuous so that it is easy to work with and allows simple and easy collection of primary data.

I am going to find out the following things:

-Are men faster at swimming than women?

-Does the amount of people from a certain club in an event affect the speed of       the people in that club?

-How drastically does the age of a swimmer effect the time of the swimmer?

-What is the relationship between the entry time and finishing time of an event?

For the question, are men faster at swimming than women? I will need information and data on the following. The times of both men and women in the same event. For example, a list of 30 times taken at random from the men’s 100m backstroke and a list of 30 times taken at random from the women’s 100m backstroke.

I will use line graphs to illustrate the data that I have collected because they will be easy to compare with each other. I intend to use average and standard deviation as calculations to represent my data.

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The hypothesis for the question, are men faster at swimming than women? Will be, "men are faster than women at 100m freestyle than women.". I am proposing the hypothesis in this way simply because men have a larger physical strength than women.

The question, does the amount of people from a certain club in an event effect the speed of the people in that club? , will require data from two different clubs, one of the clubs with less swimmers in it than the other, the question is asking of the popularity of a club effect how good the swimmers ...

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