Rainfall in Three Locations

of New Jersey

Ashley Peoples & Veronica Rezende

Background of the Experiment
We took data that was recorded in three different locations of New Jersey
every month, for the entirety of 2010:

1. Atlantic City’s International Airport, NJ

2. Sussex Airport, NJ
3. Trenton Mercer County Airport of NJ

The data came from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s
(NOAA) government website, under climate data.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/normals
Objective and Purpose
Is there a significant difference in precipitation between the three different
locations of New Jersey for the year 2010?

❏ Although New Jersey is a smaller state, there is still a possibility that there
would be a significant difference in rainfall between locations
❏ A second thing to consider is that New Jersey has different land elevations
between north, central, and south Jersey, potentially caused by a difference
in rainfall for each.
❏ Our experiment was conclusion-oriented
The Null and Alternate Hypothesis
❏ Ho:.There is no significant difference
in rainfall between the three different
locations in New Jersey.
❏ HA: There is a significant difference in
rainfall between the three different
locations in New Jersey

Each star on the map represents one of the

three different locations.
The dataset
 Rainfall throughout 2010
For each location we calculated
the total annual precipitation,
as well as created a graph to
show how much rain fell during
each month.

Total precipitation in each

location:

❏ A.C.= 41.75 in
❏ Sussex = 45.38 in
❏ Trenton Mercer = 46.44 in
T-testing
❏ We took all our data and put them through three different t-tests, to compare
each of them together. Our set significance level was a=0.05
❏ Between Atlantic City and Sussex, there was no significant difference in rainfall; p= 0.144

❏ Between Sussex and Trenton, there was no significant difference in rainfall; p= 0.737

❏ Between Atlantic City and Trenton, there was no significant difference in rainfall; p= 0.11
 Anova for Testing the Null Hypothesis
❏ Through a Single Factor
Anova, displayed on the
right, we determined a
P-value of 0.227 for the
entire dataset.
❏ 0.227>0.05 : This shows
that there is no significant
difference between the
amount of precipitation
throughout all the data.
❏ Also, F<F-crit
Conclusion
❏ We accepted the null hypothesis(HO) as all p-values were greater than the
significant level of 0.05 (p-values>0.05)
❏ There is no significant difference in rainfall between the three different
locations in New Jersey.
❏ There is no guarantee that there will be a significant difference in rainfall
between locations no matter how far apart they are. One must test data sets
to know whether or not there are significant differences between each set of
data no matter what, to either reject or accept the null hypothesis.