Comparing Data
As a piece of Statistics coursework, I have decided to compare two
items of data, in order to prove, or disprove my theory: "A country's
position in the Commonwealth games varies accordingly to that
country's population size."
My theory is that a country's position in something such as the
Olympics or Commonwealth Games is proportional to that country's
population size. I say this because I believe that if a country has a
large population, there will be more potential athletes to choose
from.
I am doing this because I would be genuinely interested in finding out
whether or not this theory is true, and I believe that it is a theory
that many people reading this essay would be curious in finding out.
In addition, I am comparing the results from the Commonwealth Games,
instead of something as renowned as the Olympic games because the
Commonwealth Games are dominated by countries with very different
traditions and cultures. Conversely, countries that dominate the
Olympic games are countries such as France, England, or Germany, and
are all countries that live a very western way of life similar to
ours.
In order to do the comparisons that I will need to make properly, I
will use three different occasions of the Commonwealth Games, and then
make an average for the number of medals awarded for each country. I
will use the most recent of games - 2002, 1998 and 1994. I will do
this, as the data collected from these three games, will contain the
data from each of the countries that enter, since in the first games
in 1930, only a fraction of the countries that enter now entered. I
will also use fifty different c...
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...bados
1
276,607
Jamaica
11
2,680,029
Anguilla
0
12,446
Grenada
0
89,211
Turks & Calcos
0
18,738
Trinidad & Tobago
2
1,163,724
Wales
21
2,903,085
Malta
0
397,499
Isle of Man
0
76,535
Gibraltar
0
27,714
Jersey
0
89,775
Northern Ireland
6
1,685,267
Cook Islands
0
20,811
Norfolk Islands
0
1,866
Niue
0
2,134
Vanuata
0
196,178
New Zealand
40
3,908,037
Solomon Islands
0
494,786
Nauru
8
12,329
Tuvalu
0
11,146
Fiji
2
856,346
Now I must compare this data. In order to this, I will do a scatter
graph.
The raw data which I have been given is in list form and provides me
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