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Assignment 2 - Basic Statistics

Assignment 2 - Basic Statistics 

Write a Report to analyze a set of data that follows a standard normal distribution. You can use R or Python to perform all the statistical analysis. You may use AI to help generate code to perform the analysis. 

  1. Think of a type of data you want to analyze. This can be any data (daily temperatures, rainfall, height, weight, etc...). It should be a type of data that would have the expectation of being a normal distribution, and the data points should be independent. 
  2. I will give you some potential datasets to use (you may select) at Assignment 2 Discussions (if you have your own data set that is normally distributed, you may use it. 
  3. Using Python libraries, calculate the basic statistics of the data points: Mean, Median, Mode, Range, Variance, and Standard Deviation. Each of these should be output to the screen as a formatted string with labels. 
  4. Create a Stem and Leaf Plot, Box Plot, and Histogram of the data. The plots should have all labels (axes and title). 
  5. Create a report with this information - the report should be titled "Analysis of [your data]". It should contain;
    1. Title, Name, Date, Class
    2. Introduction - What are you analyzing and what will you provide?
    3. Methodology - You are using Python or R to analyze data
    4. Results - Provide the statistical values and the plots.
    5. Appendices - Any code used should go here. 

Report Format (Details at Submission Guidelines (Engineering Reports) )
Cover - Name/Date/Class/Assignment #
Problem Statement - Copy/Paste and then modify to state problem
Methodology - The approach to the problem, not code, equations and explanation here
Results -Be sure to answer the problem asked in the problem statement
Conclusion - This can be short, any additional notes you want to make here
Appendices - Code or any additional information here