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 deviationA 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
BoxplotsHow to read boxplots
Line graphs

Contingency tables

   
Introduction

Normal Distribution

   
Introduction 

Confidence intervals

   
Introduction 

Skew

   
An introduction to skew
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