Pierre Reynaud Posted November 11, 2013 Report Share Posted November 11, 2013 Hi,I don't know what to do after doing all the calculations and calculatng the correlation between two sets of data.can someone help me ? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alefal Posted November 11, 2013 Report Share Posted November 11, 2013 Hey there!Well, your calculations should have a purpose. What is your research question, for instance? Is it to investigate whether or not there's a relationship between Data X and Data Y? And what's your hypothesis? Is it that there is a strong correlation between Data X and Data Y? If so, then you'd discuss the calculations, how your calculations support or disprove your hypothesis, and what the implications of this result is for theory and, if possible, the real life. Then you'd move on to evaluate your investigation. What is the strengths, what is the weaknesses, and how could you have improved on this research had you repeated it later on? Good luck! 3 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Reynaud Posted November 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2013 My research question is : Is there a correlation between mortgages rates and house prices? My hypothesis is that there is a very strong correlation between them. ty soo much alefal Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alefal Posted November 12, 2013 Report Share Posted November 12, 2013 In this case, you can very clearly discuss the real life implications for the results you've obtained through your calculations, which is a good thing. You could also try to discuss why there is (/is not) a correlation between the mortgage rates and house prices, and why this correlation is weak, strong or whatever your calculations show. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Reynaud Posted November 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2013 But how can I show what my calculations show if I did it on excel? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alefal Posted November 12, 2013 Report Share Posted November 12, 2013 You have to show calculations in the maths IA, a huge part of the criteria is based on the calculations. If you thought otherwise, you're pretty mistaken, I'm afraid. You need to show that you know the maths, and you do that by showing the calculations. You can't just say that Excel did the calculations. If the IA was that easy, it wouldn't really test any mathematical capability in the student and it would be worthless.If you repeat the same process a number of times, you don't have to show the calculations for all of them, and rather refer to the calculations in the first occurrence of that process, though this way you can find yourself losing a lot of marks if it turns out that you're wrong. Exactly how you transfer the calculations from Excel to your document depends a bit on the actual calculation, but in Word there's a formula function which is very handy. You could also add tables in word if that is needed. 2 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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