Statistics Coursework
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STATISTICS COURSEWORK Tesheen Moosa Statistics Coursework Introduction I have been asked to examine the student's attendance figures from all year groups (7, 8, 9, 10 and 11) at Hamilton Community College. I will be investigating whether the age of the students affects their attendance figures at school and does it affect their learning and exam results as well? To start my research, I was given the attendance figures by the school for all of the year groups for the 2003 - 2004 academic years. I will then start to process data (attendance figures) firstly by reducing the amount of data that I will have to process using the method of stratified sampling. By using stratified sampling I will then only use a fair amount of data according to the percentage that I'm comfortable with. I will only be using 20% of the attendance figures from each year. A scientific calculator is used, to randomly...


