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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
Types of data | |||
| Introduction | MASH guide to types of data | ||
Mean, median and mode | |||
| Mean, median and mode from lists | |||
| Frequency Tables and Grouped Data | Maths Centre guide | ||
Measures of spread | |||
| Range and interquartile range | |||
| Introduction to standard deviation | A very first introduction by MASH | ||
Data display | |||
| Data display principles | - Interpreting a table | ||
| Bar Charts | |||
| Histograms | |||
| Pie charts | |||
| Scatter graphs | |||
| Boxplots | How to read boxplots | ||
| Line graphs | |||
Contingency tables | |||
| Introduction | |||
Normal Distribution | |||
| Introduction | |||
Confidence intervals | |||
| Introduction | |||
Skew | |||
| An introduction to skew |
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