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Town TotalCases Town per 100k On the following page is a table of Covid data from a random sample of 25 towns in CT Canaan

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Town TotalCases Town per 100k On the following page is a table of Covid data from a random sample of 25 towns in CT Canaan 6 Canaan 569 (dated 1/23/2021). Barkhamsted 117 Barkhamsted 3228 East Granby 175 North Stonington 3357 The table looks at the data in 2 different ways: North Stonington 176 East Granby 3400 1. The first two columns display the ordered data (min to max) based on the Total Sterling 179 Stafford 3543 Number of Covid cases in each of the randomly selected towns Canterbury 293 Wilton 3963 2. The other two columns display the ordered data based on the Total Number of Woodstock 354 Winchester 3998 Covid cases per 100,000 people in each town. These dataset takes into account Beacon Falls 376 South Windsor 4414 the population sizes of the towns. Since the towns have different population Stafford 421 Woodstock 4503 sizes this data attempts to adjust for these population differences. Winchester 426 Monroe 4592 Wilton 729 Sterling 4735 Windsor Locks 746 Berlin 5467 Monroe Canterbury 5745 Assignment: 894 Berlin 1117 Windsor Locks $794 1. Start with the first set of data: Number of Covid cases per town. South Windsor 1150 Beacon Falls 5082 Montville 1264 North Haven 6361 Anything unusual that you see in this data? There is not a "right" answer for this Bethel 1402 Montville 6754 question. It is simply what you notice in the data. North Haven 1507 Wallingford 6840 2. Now look at the 2" set of data: Number of cases per 100,000 people. Windsor 2075 Bethel 7112 Naugatuck 2369 Windsor 7215 Anything unusual in this data set? Windham 2375 Naugatuck 7572 3. Look at the data on cases per 100,000 people (in Columns 3 and 4) New London 2403 New London 8920 Wallingford 3046 Windham 9613 Find the median, and the Quartiles. Danbury 9993 Waterbury 10176 Use the 1.5 IQR rule to test for Outliers. If there are outliers, what towns are the I Waterbury 11000 Danbury 11794 outliers? 4. Write a paragraph about the data. Look for similarities and differences among the rankings in the 2 numerical columns. Also, describe what is "typical" in terms of number of cases per town and what is "typical" in terms of number of cases per 100.000 people per town. Lastly, discuss which data column you find to be the most useful in terms of understanding Covid disease in CT. Submit your completed assignment to your TA via the electronic submission process that he/she has set up for you

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