Stats 1
Stats 2
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of your own choosing and will carry 25% of the total mark. You should spend
approximately 20 hours on the project, which must be relevant to the subject
matter of the S1, S2 and S3 specifications. You should indicate in the introduction to the project its relevance to the S1, S2 and S3 specifications. Projects with little or no relevance will be penalised. The project should consist of the use of statistical methods to investigate a subject, test an assertion(s) or estimate parameters. To this end, all projects must include data collection. This may be achieved in a variety of ways – from a designed experiment, from direct observation, from questionnaires, from secondary data or simulation. Care should be taken at this stage to ensure that the data is free from bias. Group collection of data is permitted but only the individual contribution of each candidate will gain credit. Word for word copying from books will gain no credit and neither will pamphlets which are placed in the project without any explanation of their relevance or context. Data collected for another subject (eg biology, geography) may be used for the project. Where appropriate, the data should be represented pictorially and statistical calculations undertaken. However, these activities should further the aims of the project rather than be done for their own sake. There should be discussion of the interpretation of the data, diagrams and calculations. Finally, conclusions should be drawn summarising the findings of the project. The project may be inconclusive and in this case suggestions for further work could be included. The purpose of the project is to demonstrate the ability to apply statistical methods in a practical situation. Hence an explanation of the reason for choosing particular techniques and models is desirable but large amounts of statistical theory should not be included in the report. |
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