Statistics
Stats in Everyday Life:
A Prelude to the Culminating Task
TOPIC:
Students Academic
Performance
Main Research Question:
How does the study of high school
students affected by their sleep hours
and other factors?
Stats in Everyday Life: A Prelude
to the Culminating Task
Variables Included
Number of hours students spend on
social media and playing video games
Number of hours students sleep in Grade
9 to 12
Number of periods students did not
attend
Number of hours students study after
school
Home distance from the school
Academic average of students in
Semester 1 and 2 respectively, from
Grade 9 to 12
Stats in Everyday Life: A Prelude
to the Culminating Task
Data Sources
Paper Pencil Questionnaires
Paper- Pencil Questionnaire can be done between the
students of grade 9 to 12. Majority of the people who
receive questionnaires don't return them and those
who do return them can be considered as voluntary
samplers.
Web Based Questionnaires
Web-Based Questionnaires is a new technology in an
individual receives an e-mail on which you would click
on an address that would take you to a secure website
to fill in a questionnaire. This can be done using social
media like Snapchat, Instagram and others.
Stats in Everyday Life: A Prelude
to the Culminating Task
Data Analysis
FREQUENCY GRAPHS
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
Frequency Graphs comparing the impact of factors on the
academic performance of the students in high school.
DOUBLE BAR GRAPHS
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
Double Bar Graphs will represent any two grades with
any one factor that will provide an easy answer to our
question.
PIE GRAPHS
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
Pie Chart of different factors that tells us the percentage
which each of these effects in the academic performance
of students.
SCATTERPLOTS
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
Scatterplots that will illustrate the role of any two factors
between any two grade of the high school.
TIME SERIES GRAPH
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
Time-series graph will demonstrate the trend of the
factors that impact students’ academic performance in 4
years of high school.
ODDS AND PROBABILITIES
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS
Odds and probabilities will describe the outcomes of all
factors that affects students’ academic performance
with respect to our data collection.
Stats in Everyday Life: A Prelude
to the Culminating Task
Thanks
Classmates!
Gurpreet Singh Dhalla