Assignment:
Race results for all NASCAR Winston Cup races between 1975 and 2003, inclusive. The dataset includes the numbers of cars, total prize winnings, monthly consumer price index for the month of the race, track length, laps completed by the winner, spatial co-ordinates and name of track.
Choose three peer-reviewed and two popular magazine/Web site sources for your final project.
In a Word document, include the following:
Briefly describe your data set and its characteristics.
Identify two or more questions about the data you that would like to learn more about, by applying statistical methods.
List the sources which you identified and will use for research.
Write an outline for your final project. Consider describing the data and goals of your analysis. Calculate and interpret relevant descriptive statistics. Create and interpret charts and/or graphs of your data. Describe your findings and interpret results. Discuss insights about using statistical methods.