MATH COURSEWORK: STATISTICS

Lines of inquiry:

In order to begin working through the data, I must first state the lines of enquiry which I will be investigating.

I have decided to look at three main lines of inquiry for the purposes of this course work. These are:

• The relationship between height and weight of the students
• The relationship between the IQ and ages of the students
• The relationship between IQ and the results obtained at Key Stage 2 for the students.

Of course, at any time, I may decide to expand upon these lines of enquiry and branch out into for example, the height distributions for the school.

The Data:

I know that this data is reliable as it was obtained from the Edexcel website. As such, I deem it to be reliable. This data deals with the fictional School of Mayfield.

My Sample:

For the purposes of this...