Task 4a - Recalling and reading the Titanic data file into R
setwd("C:/Users/Parul Verma/Desktop/Data Analytics Internship/HBR Cases")
titanic.df <- read.csv(paste("Titanic Data.csv", sep=""))
Task 4b - Creating a table showing the average age of the survivors and the average age of the people who died
aggregate(Age ~ Survived, data=titanic.df, FUN = mean)
## Survived Age
## 1 0 30.41530
## 2 1 28.42382
Task 4c - Using R to run a t-test to test the following hypothesis: H2: The Titanic survivors were younger than the passengers who died.
Null hypothesis : There is no significant difference between the age of the passengers who survived and those who died.
t.test(Age ~ Survived, data=titanic.df)
##
## Welch Two Sample t-test
##
## data: Age by Survived
## t = 2.1816, df = 667.56, p-value = 0.02949
## alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
## 0.1990628 3.7838912
## sample estimates:
## mean in group 0 mean in group 1
## 30.41530 28.42382
Analysis of the t-test :
We see that our p-value = 0.02949 < 0.05. This means that we can reject our null hypothesis. Thus, we can say that the Titanic survivors were younger than the passengers who died.