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The aim of this project is to investigate which factors influence the costs of second hand cars. The makes we were looking into include Ford, Peugeot, Renault and Vauxhall.
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Write Up The aim of this project is to investigate which factors influence the costs of second hand cars. The makes we were looking into include Ford, Peugeot, Renault and Vauxhall. To aid us with our research, we were given a bank of secondary data of one hundred and ninety nine cars. Along with these cars, we were given nine variables for each car; colour, engine size, petrol/diesel, year of manufacture, mileage, cost, preliminary cost, make and model. We later had to add an age column for each. We have been asked which features make most difference. My predictions for which makes the most difference are as follows: FACTOR IMPORTANCE RANGE 1. Age most important factor 1yr-16yrs 2. Mileage 1200-150,000 3. Cost 375-132,500 4. Petrol/Diesel Petrol/Diesel 5. Engine size 1,000-2,500 6. Year 1989-2002 7. Model 106-Vectra 8. Make Ford-Vauxhall 9. Preliminary Cost 6,000-20,020 10. Colour least important factor Black-Yellow Looking through the data, I can see that it is not perfect. There are many missing fields of data, and I had to remove one rogue piece of...
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