First steps

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 Resouce Exercise

Types of data

  
Introduction

MASH guide to types of data 

Mean, median and mode

      
Mean, median and mode from lists

Maths Centre guide

Frequency Tables and Grouped Data

Maths Centre guide

Measures of spread

      
Range and interquartile range

 (includes exercises)
Introduction to standard deviation

A very first introduction by MASH

Data display

      
Data display principles

Displaying data

What graph should I use?

Graphics principles cheat sheet

 - Interpreting a table
Bar Charts

Histograms

Pie charts

Scatter graphs

Boxplots

How to read boxplots

 (Drawing)

 (Interpreting)
Line graphs

Contingency tables

      
Introduction

Normal Distribution

      
Introduction

 

Confidence intervals

      
Introduction

 

Skew

      
An introduction to skew

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