Editing Final Report/Thesis 2015 (section)

====Aim====
Towards the end of the project, a decision was made that for Task 4, rather than analysing the mass spectrometer data from the Somerton Man's hair, we would focus our efforts on reanalysing the letter frequencies of various European languages.  This was decided upon since our initial analysis performed in Task 1 produced inconsistent and varied results.  This was brought about due to the limited sample size of the ''Universal Declaration of Human Rights'' as a base text, causing the frequency of particular letters to appear 0 times in particular languages.  Due to this, these letter frequencies had to be altered by choosing arbitrary numbers for their frequency in order to perform our ''chi-Squared testing'' and thus reduced the accuracy and validity of the test's results.

the limited sample size caused the chi-squared values for all languages, including English, to be reasonably large.  This caused the resulting calculated ''p-values'' to be extremely small numbers, or in most cases 0.  Because of this, these chi-squared values were not usable to use ''p-values'' to perform our initially proposed ''hypothesis testing'' from Task 1.

This caused us to question the validity of the ''Universal Declaration of Human Rights'' as a base text and so we sought to increase our sample size using alternate base texts and extend our original statistical analysis.