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Mr Brewin’s S1 – The Spirit Level

The slides I was talking about are embedded below. They are from a debate between the authors of The Spirit Level (you can buy it here) and their detractors (who have been shown to be wrong, and wanting to dispute the evidence for ideological reasons). The audio of the debate can be found here.
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Mr Brewin’s S1 – Measures of Location

The presentation from today’s lesson is here.

Ex 2B for Weds please!

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Mr Brewin’s Year 12 Stats

The presentation on Normal Distribution is here. Have a look please D.

Ex 9A and 9B for Weds please, and the S1 for Friday. Deola – please pick one up from my desk on Monday.

S1 Revision Session – Interpolation, Median, Stem and Leafs, Histograms…

Here’s the presentation from today’s session.

And here’s the exam questions, and the solutions too.

Any questions on it, see me or Daley.

Mr Brewin’s Year 12 Statistics

Here’s the presentation from today’s lesson. Just slides 1 – 8 for now please.

Complete Ex 8A for next lesson.

Mr Brewin’s Year 12 Stats

Here’s the slides on Regression that we covered today. Becky and Deola – if you could have a look at them and have a go at Ex 7A before next lesson that would be much appreciated.

Also, here’s the worked solutions to the special homework of exam questions on probability. Have a look through them to [...]

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Mr Brewin’s Year 12 Stats

Update: here’s a pseudo-equation for working out the median:

Where LCB=Lower Class Boundary, CW= Class Width, M.obs is the observation where the median is going to be, UC.Obs is the Observation at the Upper Class and LC.Obs is the same for Lower Class. Confused? Thought you would be!

Hope that helps!

 

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Mr Brewin’s Year 12 S1 – Intro pages

Pages 1 Pages 2 Pages 3 Pages 4 Pages 5 Pages 6

Here’s the pages from the book that you may want to open and browse through. If you could do Ex 1A and 2A by next week, that would be great. Any problems just come and see me, or shout here.

Ta!