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Getting to grips with statistics - try more



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These resources explore statistics concepts usually met by students aged 16-18

Stats statements
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Stats statements

Age
16 to 18
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Are these statistical statements sometimes, always or never true? Or it is impossible to say?

Hypothetical shorts
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Hypothetical shorts

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Some short statements about hypothesis testing: are they true, false, or somewhere in between?
Robin's hypothesis testing
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Robin's hypothesis testing

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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How many trials should we do in order to accept or reject our null hypothesis?
Powerful hypothesis testing
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Powerful hypothesis testing

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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How effective are hypothesis tests at showing that our null hypothesis is wrong?
Binomial or not?
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Binomial or not?

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Are these scenarios described by the binomial distribution?
Binomial conditions
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Binomial conditions

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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When is an experiment described by the binomial distribution? Why do we need both the condition about independence and the one about constant probability?
A well-stirred sample
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A well-stirred sample

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Typical survey sample sizes are about 1000 people. Why is this?