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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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

 (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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