Project 1
Method
In this experiment, we took a detailed look at Edward Bloom's Big Fish. In particular, we sampled 10 pages of the book, and from each of those pages, examined the number of lines starting with various types of words, and types of letters as well. In order to randomly select 10 pages from the book, we used the Vasser Stats randomizer to generate 10 random page numbers. We then went through each of the 10 randomly selected pages and recorded the number of lines that started with a noun, a verb, an adjective, a vowel, and a consonant. When recording the number of lines starting with nouns and verbs, we also made sure to divide the results into those that began with vowels and those began with consonants. The data was entered into a spreadsheet in Excel and then transferred to JMP IN. In dealing with the data, we treated each of the ten pages as an individual and so we had 10 values for the number of lines starting with each of our different word and letter......
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Approximate Word Count: 916
Approximate Pages: 4 (260 words per double-spaced page) |