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Analysing Maths graphs for statistics coursework

Conclusion

From the analysis of my graphs, my results show that although there were various observations, the main one was that The Times in most sections had the longest sentences, and the Mirror had the shortest. This means that my first hypotheses of: ‘The Times will have longer sentences than The Daily Mail, which in turn will have longer sentences than The Mirror’ was proved correct. You can see this from my comparison of the three graphs, in ‘Entertainment’, ‘News’ and ‘Sport’. In all of these sections, The Times had the biggest number of longer sentences, sometimes by vast amounts such as in the Entertainment section, where the Times median was higher than the upper quartile of The Daily Mail and The Mirror showing that the top 50% of the Times newspaper was higher than the top 75% of the other box plots (The Daily Mail and The Mirror)- shown on the left. These box plots and the cumulative frequency graphs that can be found with it, show that The Times had mu...

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