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Introduction Geaux Tigers is a common phrase uttered on a Louisiana Saturday Night. Students, Alumni, and Tiger Fans fill Death Valley to cheer the LSU Fighting Tigers to victory. The LSU Athletic Department generously offers two student ticket options: general admission or reserved group seating. The general admission ticket costs $12 per a game and the seats are on a first come first serve basis. The student section games open three hours before a game and students must get in line early to get the prime seats for big games. The other option that the LSU Athletic Department offers is the reserved group seating. Reserved group seating is for organizations and their members to have the ability to sit together in a guaranteed seat that is consistent throughout the season. These tickets cost $18 per game; however, the student has a reserved seat and does not have to worry about getting in line early to get a better seat. I am interested in seeing if there is a difference between when you leave based on your seat. I have hypothesized that people who have general admission student tickets typically leave the game early. I believe this because many of these general admission students have been in the stadium longer than students who have reserved group seating, since they had to arrive early to get a desired seat. Data Collection Using a Qualtrics survey, I obtained 97 survey respondents for my survey data. Forty of the respondents were students who had reserved group seating tickets, 40 students had general admission student tickets, and 17 of the respondents did not have student tickets. For the purpose of my research, I discarded the respondents who did not have student tickets. The game day habits of each student were classified into two groups: students who typically leave the game early or students who do not typically leave the game early. Table 1. Number of People

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Population General admission student seating Reserved group student seating Total

Leave game early 30 20 50

Do not leave game early 10 20 30

Total 40 40 80

Descriptive Statistics 1. Graphical Representation The following figures display my data on the entire population, and the proportion of the general admission student tickets and the reserved group seating student tickets who typically leave the game early or dont typically leave the game early.

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Figure 3. Proportion of reserved group student tickets leaving the game early vs. not leaving the game early

2. Numerical Measure Table 2. Probability Table Population 1 General admission student seats 2 Reserved group seating Total Yes 37.50% 25.00% 62.50% No 12.50% 25.00% 37.50% Total 50.00% 50.00% 100.00%

Table 2 shows the probability of the relative frequency of each occasion. The probability results are constrained by the number of respondents who choose to answer the survey. However, with a sample size n=80, I calculated the sample proportion of people leaving the game early as follows: !! Statistical Inferences 1. Confidence Interval Estimations With ! = proportion of students leaving the game early, which is an unknown, fixed value, I set my confidence level at 95%, as shown by the following normal distribution. ! ! ! ! ! !!!! ! ! ! ! !
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2. Hypothesis Testing the proportion of general admission students who typically leave the game is greater than 50% of the total students who leave the game early. Null Hypothesis: Ho: !! ! !! Alternate Hypothesis: H1: !!! !! Test Statistic : !!
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One sided p-value= p[Z>.9898]=.0102 Conclude: H1 because the proportion of general admission students who typically leave the game is greater than 50% of the total students who leave the game early. 3. Hypothesis Testing of Two Population Case We still need to resolve whether or not there is a difference in game day habits between the population of students who have general admission tickets or reserved group seating tickets. Null Hypothesis: !! !!! ! !!

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Conclusion: According to my data, my hypothesis has been supported and there is a significant difference between leaving the game early and whether you have general admission student tickets or reserved group seating. There is a correlation between reserved group seating and general admission tickets and their decision on whether or not to leave the game early. Students leaving games early is starting to become an epidemic among college football. Students who have reserved group seating tickets do not typically leave the game early as often as general admission tickets. This can be contributed to a number of factors including heat and exhaustion. Maybe if LSU offered a reserved seating option to more students, than this problem can be alleviated and more students would cheer the Tigers on to victory.

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