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Statistics Semester Project

My project was to show the proportion of the population of students who are right-hand dominant, left-hand dominant, and ambidextrous, is able to use both right and left hands to write. I will also see if the proportion of each type of hand dominance is equal with the other two types of hand dominance. I used a stratified sample by choosing the students that were in each one of my classes. Because the sample is stratified and not a simple random sample, the results may not be precisely the same as if they were done in a different study. I took the first one hundred and fifty students and used them as my sample.
Since finding out the information of what hand is dominant or if the person is ambidextrous is not an extremely elaborate process, I did not need to send out surveys or have a long interview. In order to get the data I needed, I simply asked each person included in the study if he or she was left-hand dominant, right-hand dominant, or ambidextrous. The statistics I ...

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