Statistics

Statistics

** Project: IQR Compensation analyst **

**Project Overview** The problem: Activity 1: Students analyze salaries and create the companies salary parameters using the 5 number summary. Activity 2:Students then provide a recommendation for who they would hire. Students create there own ranking system that incorporates 4 different variables.

** Areas of Application: ** Basic Statistics Box & whisker plots Mean, median, quartiles, standard deviation Rates and ratios Histograms



Criminal Intentions = Project Overview = The Problem: One of the great and nagging questions of all time is: how safe is the place where I live? Families spend small fortunes on security systems for their home and take extra precautions when on vacation all so they can feel safe. By examining the crime statistics for the fifty states across seven different categories, students can get a feel for where the safe places in the United States are, and where the least safe places are as well.

Areas of Application: Basic Statistics
 * Box & whisker plots
 * Mean, median, quartiles, standard deviation
 * Excel (Basic Formulas and Formatting)



Boston Red Sox Investigation The Problem: Students investigate Bill James Pythagorean Theorem and how it was used to calculate the probability of the Red sock making the playoff's in 2011.

Areas of Application: Basic Statistics
 * Probability

@http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/bill-buckner-strikes-again/