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MDM4U1 Culminating Project – Fall 2013

You have the distinct pleasure and opportunity to complete a statistical project on a topic of your choosing. The project will include your research on the Internet, the use of a statistics program called Fathom to create tables and graphs, the possible use of Excel spreadsheets and/or PowerPoint, and a word processing program (likely Microsoft Word).

A. Individual or Group Project

The project will be completed in groups of one or two people. You can hand in an individual assignment based on splitting up what you have worked on in your group, or hand in the project as a two person group assignment. You and/or your group will be required to produce a typed report of your project, or create a scintillating PowerPoint presentation.

B. The Thesis Statement or Question to Be Answered

Your project should seek to ask a question or prove a statement, such as:

1. Car prices and costs have been rising more than inflation

2. In 2011, after 9/11, traveling and tourism of all types decreased in North America

3. Corporations are not spending enough in protecting the environment

You may find your initial statement or question asked is incorrect, and you may prove the opposite. That is fine – obviously no marks are deducted for making a statement that you prove incorrect.

C. Some Potential Topics

|Tourism in Canada |NFL comparisons |

|Modes and Destinations of Travel by Canadians |Crime Rates |

|Scientific Innovation |Murder Rates |

|Employment of men/women in Canada |Teen Pregnancy factors |

|Movie/Box office popularity |NHL, NBA scoring statistics |

|Health Behaviour of school aged children |Sources of Pollution and Waste in Canada |

|University and School board funding |Unionization in Canada |

|Sexual Assault |Life Expectancy factors |

|Causes Of Death |Baseball Statistics / Home Runs Statistics |

D. Time Line

Tentative half days for completion of your project.

Nov. 8, 14 ESTAT, Fathom, researching topics, forming group, work in Room 302

TBA Thesis statement is due, with ESTAT sources you are using

Nov. 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 Working on, and typing the project, create brilliance, work in Room 302

Dec. 5, 6

E. Statistics Canada Addresses

Statistics Canada

F. The Written Report

A project completed at Brock University -> . You will not complete every section, and will need to expand your written analysis beyond theirs.

Section 1: Research locations and Internet sites

Most, if not all, of your work will be researched on the internet. This area will be like a descriptive bibliography. It will list internet links, ESTAT links and the number of any tables used, plus sites you visited in your computer research but may not have used much or at all. You should discuss data you wish you had but that was not available to you. You do not have to do a mind map.



Section 2: Analyzing Data Involving One Variable Brock Section 2a, 2c

You will organize the main body of work here as follows …

1. Problem and Plan - indicate the internet addresses and sites you actually used to create your graphs, the data topics you will analyze in this section, and ESTAT table numbers, and those things you wished you could analyze, such as missing years, missing pieces of data.

2. Graphs and Analysis - the number and quality of graphs in the Brock project is good, but their analysis and conclusions are way too brief. Please provide tables and analysis right after each graph instead of waiting to the end of the section. Show any calculations you do right in the project. In Brock Project 2c, they do probability in percentages, and you may include probability graphs in your Section 2. There should be a minimum 3 / maximum 6 graphs per person.

3. Do not include conclusions here. Save them for your Section 4. and

Section 3: Analyzing Data Involving Two Variables Brock Section 2b

You will notice the authors use Fathom to find the Line of Best Fit and the r value (Correlation Coefficient). Note that Fathom gives you r2, and you must yourself find the value of r. Prepare a minimum 2 / maximum 4 graphs per person that compare two different variables that you used in Section 2.

Section 4: Project Conclusion Brock Conclusions

This is an important section, and its purpose is to show the key points of what you found out in your research, to link data together. Give relevant and supportable opinions based on the data, and also discuss what you were unable to find out due to certain data being unavailable.



G. Report Due Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Potential Examples of Thesis Statements

- Canada has a whole has more overweight/obese people than any other country in the world

- The Rate of Suicide in Canada has rapidly increased from 1990-1999

- Youth employment rates are seeing a steady decline because of the increased enrollment in school, and the demand for a higher education in order to be considered qualified for most jobs

- The strength of tourism market in Canada was affected by the events of 9-11

- The workplace is safer now than it has been in the past

- As time goes on, the number of people smoking has increased

- The amount of alcohol related driving fatalities have decreased dramatically over time

- The internet is an improvement for Canadian life, which is used across Canada despite users having similar security and privacy concerns, it still continues to attract people of all ages

- As the population of Canada and Ontario increases/decreases, the crime rate is affected

- Juvenile arrests for violent crimes are directly linked to the number of juvenile homicides involving the use of firearms

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