1. The main point of the research was to determine running
trends in
NCAA Diision 1 !utdoor Trac" # $ield Championships from 1%%&
to'(1). The *eld of research is math and statistics+ seeing as
theresearcher of the pro,ect was from the Department of Mathematics
andStatistics at Elon. The researcher used - and SAS software to
analyethe data. ANC!/A models were also used and 1(" *nishing times
werepredicted using these after the *rst lap and the ratio
category. Theresearcher explained that the ratio was de*ned as the
pace of the *rst'1 laps diided 0y the aerage pace of the last laps.
Actual aerageswere tallied for each school and type of race+ split
into men2s andwomen2s leagues. 3t was interesting to see how
similar these resultswere compared to other things that we hae
tested in class. 3t was also
interesting how the p4alue is used in this report as we use it
in class.
'. The main point of the research was to determine how often
statisticaleidence is used in undergraduate research at Elon. This
was alsoadministered under the Department of Mathematics and
Statistics. 3norder to o0tain the information and statistical
eidence that would giesight into the research tendencies of other
students+ the researchercreated an online surey for any S5-$ day
participants 0etween '(1and '(1). They then gathered information on
demographics+ research+etc. There were && responses that
could 0e used and these weregrouped into seen academic disciplines
according to ma,or. The study
showed that 67 of Elon undergraduates used statistics in
theirresearch. The ones who did felt that it was inalua0le to their
researchand the ones who didn2t felt strongly that it wouldn2t hae
added anyalue. The presentation features a 0ox plot which was
common in classand they also grouped the samples into groups ma"ing
it a strati*edsample distri0ution.
