12/15 Update

I have made two new maps.  One with just the counties that were considered to be hot spots through my hot spot analysis, and a second map looking at the five counties in California that had the highest levels of both ozone exceedance and asthma hospitalizations.  Now that all of my maps are done I have started to begin the analysis of my data and looking to see if there are any significant relationships between the variables that I looked at.  In order to test the significance, I used a paired two-sample t-Test through excel.  I tried doing more analysis through GIS but was experiencing a lot of difficulties with it so I decided to use my original excel sheet data to do the analysis myself.  I was not surprised that when comparing the data of all of the counties the p-value showed that there is a significant relationship.  However, I was surprised that there was not a significant relationship between both the Hotspots and the top 5 counties.  My goal for next week is to have my poster completed.