First steps in Statistics
These resources are designed to help you refresh your knowledge or get going with statistics for the first time.
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| Video | Written resource | Exercise | |
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Types of data |
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| Introduction | MASH guide to types of data | ||
Mean, median and mode |
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| Mean, median and mode from lists | |||
| Frequency Tables and Grouped Data | Maths Centre guide | ||
Measures of spread |
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| Range and interquartile range |
(includes exercises) |
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| Introduction to standard deviation | |||
Data display |
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| Data display principles |
- Interpreting a table |
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| Bar Charts | |||
| Histograms | |||
| Pie charts | |||
| Scatter graphs | |||
| Boxplots |
(Drawing) (Interpreting) |
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| Line graphs | |||
Contingency tables |
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| Introduction | |||
Normal Distribution |
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| Introduction | |||
Confidence intervals |
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| Introduction | |||
Skew |
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| An introduction to skew |
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