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Investigate whether boys are bigger than girls.  

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Statistics Coursework Aim In this coursework, I want to investigate whether boys are bigger than girls. I have to take into consideration weight and age, as this will affect the height. A boy of 16 years old will, almost certainly, be taller than a girl of 11 years old. I will split the data into age groups to combat this problem and compare data of pupils in the same year. The data I am using is from Mayfield School and Ridgewood School. I want to see whether pupils have a growth spurt in a certain year and if shorter people are generally heavier than taller people. I want to investigate this because it is a very interesting subject that, I believe, hasn't been looked into before. Hypothesis I think that boys will be taller than girls. I think that boys will have more spread out data than girls and that boys will have...

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