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Analysis

We decided to use the PingER derived throughput to illustrate the Internet performance. This is derived using the Mathis formula relating throughput to loss probability (p) and Round Trip Time (RTT)   as Throughput < (MSS/RTT)*(1 / sqrt(p)) where:  MSS: is the maximum segment size (fixed for each Internet path, typically 1460 bytes) 

The fertility data, TLD data and throughput data were imported into Excel. We used the Excel vlookup function to create a table of; Fertility Rate, median throughput, population for each country.

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