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\subsection{Enhanced radio emission in quasar pairs}  Tby making use of the data provided in Koss et al 2011, we have identified 1 286 quasar pairs from a parent sample of 138 070 data points from the SDSS. This is only $1.8628\%$ of our origional original  data. This percentage increases to $3.6\%$ after correction for the SDSS' physical limitations are made \cite{Liu_2011}.  Our final sample includes only data points that meet selection criteria mentioned the Liu quasar pair catalogue section. Most of our quasar pair are close to the lower limit ($z \approx 0.02$). We have only 24 pairs at $z > 0.16$.  From figure 8 we observe that much of the data is clustered in the bottom right corner of the figure. This is because of a geometric effect, where the area in an annulus with $ r_{p}$-lower = 50 & $ r_{p}$-higher is much greater than for $ r_{p}$-lower = 0 & $ r_{p}$-higher = 50. We also note that the pair velocity offset seems to increase slightly with a increase in the projected separation