Archive for February, 2013

MATH 6820 Week 7: Distributions

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

As required in the instruction, I find the data set, remove all the missing data, and randomly pick 1oo sample from the above data set. Since my first name’s first letter is between A to J, I look at the haircut prices of the men and women in the class. (The relevant variables in the […]

MATH 6820 Week 6: Pythagorean Relationship

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Exploring the Pythagorean Formula  collect for a number of teams, the following variables: W – the number of games won L – the number of games lost P – the number of points (or runs, goals, etc) scored by the team PA – the number of points allowed by the team Then the Pythagorean formula […]

MATH 6820 Week 5: Which log?

Friday, February 8th, 2013

Which Log? Collect some measurement that has changed exponentially over time.  (You should have at least 10 measurements.) According to this requirement I collect data from world dataBank, World Development Indicators(WDI), the link is http://databank.worldbank.org/ddp/home.do In this blog, I construct two graph. first one is a display with log base 10 measurement against  time and the […]

MATH 6820 Week 4: Comparing Population Growth

Friday, February 1st, 2013

I collect the population of another country, Guatemala, for the same ten-year period that I used in the previous blog two scales. After data collection, I compare the log (base 2) population against year for the two countries, Honduras and Guatemala. Here, I use one panel and two connected curve to display these two countries’ […]

MATH 6820 Week 4: Two Scales

Friday, February 1st, 2013

The website http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?cid=GPD_1 gives the population of many countries for many years. I collect population data for Honduras from 2002 to 2011,and graph the log (base 2) of the population against year.  Construct two scales for your graph where the left vertical scale shows the log (base 2) population and the right vertical scale shows the population. […]