Height and Vertical Jump Weston, Tyler, and Claytōn

What We Did?

Tyler- RecordedWeston- Asked people and measuredClayton- Cut tape

HeightOur SampleHeight AveragesWomen: 65 ⅓ inches

Men: 71.467 inches

America According to the CDCHeight AveragesWomen: 63.8 inches

Men: 69.3 inches

Response Bias!!!!!

WomenWith a T-Interval of (64.043, 66.624) and with Alpha=0.05 you would reject the null,

because the T-Score is 3.276.

MenWith a T-Interval of (70.437, 72.497) with

Alpha=0.01 you would reject the null, because the T-score is 5.798.

Min: 59

Median: 65

Max: 70

Mode: 65

Outlier: 59

Range: 11

Min: 69

Median: 71

Max: 75

Mode: 69

Range: 6

Vertical Jump

Men’s Vertical Jump

- Mean: 14.9

- Standard Deviation: 4.782

- 5-number summary: MinX- 8, Q1- 11, Med- 14.125, Q3- 19.5, maxX- 23

- Range: 15

- Mode: none

- Outliers: none

Women’s Vertical Jump

- Mean: 9.7

- Standard Deviation: 2.672

- 5-number summary: MinX- 4, Q1- 8, Med- 9.5, Q3- 12, maxX- 15

- Range: 11

- Mode: none

- Outliers: none

Linear Correlation & Conclusion

Men’s Height vs. Vertical Jump

- Correlation between Men Height and Men Vertical Jump is: 0.24856614- Regression line equation: y = -26.555541 + 0.58046129x

Women’s Height vs. Vertical Jump

- Correlation between Women Height and Women Vertical Jump is: 0.28464747

- Regression line equation: y = -10.686739 + 0.30973735x

Men Women

Scatter Plots of data

ConclusionThrough the statistical evidence that we collected we came to the conclusion that there was no linear correlation between height and vertical jump.

And if there was some sort of correlation, it was lost due to the vast amount of lurking variables.