Statistics A Level

Everything you need for success in Statistics at A-Level: * Advice on the course, study and exam technique * Knowledge - fact sheets of essential formulas and key definitions * Fully worked examples of real exam questions, with hints and tips on how best to solve them * Practice - full of recent questions with answers * Confidence - outline solutions to exercises, so you can check and assess your understanding topic by topic Front Matter....Pages i-viii Presentation of Statistics....Pages 1-14 Averages and Measures of Spread....Pages 15-36 Probability....Pages 37-55 Discrete Probability Distributions....Pages 56-73 Binomial and Poisson Distributions....Pages 74-86 Continuous Probability Distributions....Pages 87-103 The Normal Distribution....Pages 104-120 Generating Functions....Pages 121-133 Sampling and Statistical Estimation....Pages 134-153 Statistical Decision....Pages 154-173 Small Sampling....Pages 174-185 Chi Squared Distribution....Pages 186-201 Correlation....Pages 202-220 Linear Regression....Pages 221-238 Further Topics....Pages 239-264 Tables....Pages 265-270 Back Matter....Pages 271-280 This is course book for A Level Statistics. It provides: advice on the course, and on study and exam techniques; fact sheets of essential formulae and key definitions; fully worked examples of real exam questions; and outline solutions of exercises to check progress. The topics covered in this book include those of all examining boards at A-level as well as RSA and B/TEC qualifications. It includes fact sheets, worked examples and further examples. Each of the chapters outlines a particular subject within the area of statistics.