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Find out what book is more complex out of two books that I have selected by obtaining their sentence lengths and length of words. I have choosen two childrens books which are 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'The Patchwork Cat'.  

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Maths Statistics Coursework Introduction The aim of the coursework is to find out what book is more complex out of two books that I have selected by obtaining their sentence lengths and length of words. I have choosen two childrens books which are 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'The Patchwork Cat'. To find out what book is more complex, I will use random sampling, firstly to select a page out of the book, and then to choose a sentence, recording the number of words in the sentence, then recording the amount of letters in the word. This sample would be taken 50 times for 50 sentences and 50 words. Sampling To do this, I will use random sampling. Random sampling is a method which gives each member of a group an equal chance of being chosen. In other words, the sample is selected at random, rather like picking numbers out of a hat. Today computers...

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