Full-colour throughout for accessible and stimulating material. Includes actual examination questions for plenty of practice with the pupils. Includes ICT activities for full support in developing statistics in this media. Covers all coursework requirements. Review sections in every chapter for full revision and consolidation of learning.

 

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 432 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Oxford University Press .

This book has the following chapters: Part 1 Collecting data: types of data; sampling; designing a questionnaire; ICT - working with "Excel". Part 2 Dealing with data: presenting data; line graphs and pie-charts; ICT - working with "Excel"; Part 3 Averages: choosing a representative figure; calculations involving the mean; estimation; control charts; ICT - working with "Excel". Part 4 Measures of spread: range; cumulative frequency; standard deviation; ICT - working with "Excel". Part 5 Presenting data: two-way tables; stem and leaf diagrams; population pyramids. Part 6 Probability: it all adds up to one; conditional probability; relative frequency; ICT - working with "Excel". Part 7 Histograms: drawing histograms; the shape of a distribution. Part 8 Shapes of distributions: box and whisker diagrams; the normal curve. Part 9 Errors in statistics: errors in measurement; misleading graphs; ICT - working with "Excel". Part 10 Time series: looking for trends; moving averages; ICT - working with "Excel". Part 11 Weighting: index numbers; birth and death rates. Part 12 Finding probabilities: rules for finding probabilities; probability trees. Part 13 Using factorials: factorial notation; selections or combinations; the binomial distribution; ICT - working with "Excel". Part 14 Scatter graphs: scatter diagrams; the equation of the line of best fit; Spearman's coefficient of rank correlation; ICT - working with "Excel". Part 15 Coursework: choose a topic; form the hypotheses; collect the data; analyze the data; interpret the results; form conclusions and state the limitations.