Statistics

AS: Use of Mathematics
Statistics

This book covers the optional unit Using and applying statistics.

The mathematical content of this book includes:

• types of data, random and stratified samples, questionnaires;

• statistical measures including averages, quartiles, percentiles, standard deviation;

• representation of data using diagrams including histograms, cumulative frequency graphs and other statistical charts and graphs used in the real world;

• interpretation of information from tables;

• correlation and regression;

• the normal distribution used to model data;

• critical analysis of statistics produced by other people

• extension opportunities including box and whisker plots, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, non-linear regression models, uniform, binomial and Poisson distributions, significance tests (z, t, chi-squared, Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxin).

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