Introduction

• ____ State the bivariate data your group is going to study.

  Examples:

  Here are two examples, but you may NOT use them: height vs. weight and age vs. running distance.
• ____ Describe how your group is going to collect the data (for instance, collect data from the web, survey students on campus).
• ____ Describe your sampling technique in detail. Use cluster, stratified, systematic, or simple random sampling (using a random number generator) sampling. Convenience sampling is NOT acceptable.
• ____ Conduct your survey. Your number of pairs must be at least 30.
• ____ Print out a copy of your data.

Analysis

• ____ On a separate sheet of paper construct a scatter plot of the data. Label and scale both axes.
• ____ State the least squares line and the correlation coefficient.
• ____ On your scatter plot, in a different color, construct the least squares line.
• ____ Is the correlation coefficient significant? Explain and show how you determined this.
• ____ Interpret the slope of the linear regression line in the context of the data in your project. Relate the explanation to your data, and quantify what the slope tells you.
• ____ Does the regression line seem to fit the data? Why or why not? If the data does not seem to be linear, explain if any other model seems to fit the data better.
• ____ Are there any outliers? If so, what are they? Show your work in how you used the potential outlier formula in the Linear Regression and Correlation chapter (since you have bivariate data) to determine whether or not any pairs might be outliers.

• _____ Summarize your data in a chart with columns showing data value, frequency, relative frequency, and cumulative relative frequency.
• _____ Answer the following, rounded to 2 decimal places:
  • 1. Sample mean =
  • 2. Sample standard deviation =
  • 3. First quartile =
  • 4. Third quartile =
  • 5. Median =
  • 6. 70th percentile =
  • 7. Value that is 2 standard deviations above the mean =
  • 8. Value that is 1.5 standard deviations below the mean =
• _____ Construct a histogram displaying your data. Group your data into 6 – 10 intervals of equal width. Pick regularly spaced intervals that make sense in relation to your data. For example, do NOT group data by age as 20-26,27-33,34-40,41-47,48-54,55-61 . . . Instead, maybe use age groups 19.5-24.5, 24.5-29.5, . . . or 19.5-29.5, 29.5-39.5, 39.5-49.5, . . .
• _____ In complete sentences, describe the shape of your histogram.
• _____ Are there any potential outliers? Which values are they? Show your work and calculations as to how you used the potential outlier formula in chapter 2 (since you are now using univariate data) to determine which values might be outliers.
• _____ Construct a box plot of your data.
• _____ Does the middle 50% of your data appear to be concentrated together or spread out? Explain how you determined this.
• _____ Looking at both the histogram AND the box plot, discuss the distribution of your data. For example: how does the spread of the middle 50% of your data compare to the spread of the rest of the data represented in the box plot; how does this correspond to your description of the shape of the histogram; how does the graphical display show any outliers you may have found; does the histogram show any gaps in the data that are not visible in the box plot; are there any interesting features of your data that you should point out.