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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: Correlation

For those who weren’t there today, and for those who need a copy for notes, I’ve uploaded the presentation here.

Special homework in for Weds, and have a look at Ex 6B too please. Shout here if you need help!

Have a good weekend,

KB

Mr Brewin’s Year 12 – Tree Diagrams and Conditional Probability

The presentation we looked at today is here.

Ex 5E for Friday please. Can someone tell Deola?

Ta,

KB

Year 12 and 13 – ‘More or Less’ BBC Podcast

Excellent weekly radio programme from BBC, looking at the numbers behind the news. This is exactly the sort of stuff that would enrich a university interview, so put it on your podcast list and grab half an hour a week to get smart

Webpage

iTunes Podcast

Mr Brewin’s Year 12 Stats – Standard Deviation and Variance

The slides on Standard Deviation and Variance are here.

The answers to the first few exercises in Chapter 3 are here.

Miss Daley’s Year 12 Statistics – Interpolation

Here’s the example sheet I used today on interpolation. Have a good weekend – shout here if you need help!

Mrs Tibble’s Year 11 – Moving Averages

The graph we used in the lesson on moving averages is here to download!

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!

 

Sorry didn’t get to post this last night. The latest slides [...]

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Mr Brewin’s Year 12 Stats

Here\’s the slides from today’s lesson.

For Friday please: Ex 2B and 2C from the sheets. I’ve got answers if you need them. Shout here if any problems!

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!