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Descriptive Statistics

Student Name: Shaniqua Dickens

Course: MTH140 AO Statistics

Professor: H. Bass

Date:6/26/2021

Number of accidents caused by red-runners in the intersections annually

The sample is secondary data obtained from (http:/autoaccident.com). The sample collected shows the number of accidents that were caused by red-runners annually in the intersections. The sample contains the number of accidents caused by red-runners in the intersections annually in the last twenty-one years from 2000 to 2020.

Descriptive statistics

number of accidents caused by red-runners

Mean

158620.3333

Standard Error

1901.771728

Median

158620

Mode

164125

Standard Deviation

8715.012899

Sample Variance

75951449.83

Kurtosis

-1.354711442

Skewness

0.15032232

Range

27078

Minimum

145472

Maximum

172550

Sum

3331027

Count

21

The mean number of accidents caused by red-runners in the intersections annually from the year 2000 to 2020 is approximately 158620. The mode is 164125 while the median is 158620. The standard deviation of the data set is 8715.012899 while the variance is 75951449.83. the highest number of accidents registered in my sample is 172550 while the lowest is 145472.

Graphs

From my data, I expect to see how the number of accidents caused by red-runners in the intersections has been changing annually. I am hoping to learn the trend of the number of accidents in the intersections caused by red-runners and also be able to predict the future numbers using my data.

References

Kaur, P., Stoltzfus, J., & Yellapu, V. (2018). Descriptive statistics. International Journal of Academic Medicine, 4(1), 60.

Sharma, S. K., Kanchan, T., & Krishan, K. (2018). Descriptive statistics. The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, 1-8.

Scatter Plot

number of accidents caused by red-runners 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 169600 164125 172550 172172 150372 164652 150050 155011 160774 158620 149152 151590 152691 162193 166574 151582 169607 164125 153567 145472 146548

year

number of accidents caused by red-runners