Foundation Statistics
Collection of Data
Topic | Notes | ||
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Describing Data | CIMT notes, revision card | ||
Grouping Data | CIMT notes | ||
Primary & Secondary data | CIMT notes | ||
Populations | |||
Random Sampling | |||
Non-random sampling | S1 notes | exam questions | |
Stratified Sampling | exam questions | ||
Collection of data | |||
Questionnaires and interviews | exam questions | questions / answers | |
Problems with collected data | |||
Controlling extraneous variables | |||
Hypotheses | exam questions | ||
Designing Investigations |
Processsing and representing data
Topic | Notes | ||
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Tables | |||
Two-way tables | |||
Pictograms | CIMT notes | ||
Bar Charts | |||
Stem and Leaf diagrams | |||
Pie Charts | |||
Population Pyramids | CIMT notes | ||
Choropleth maps | CIMT notes | ||
Histograms and frequency polygons | worksheet | video 1 | |
Cumulative frequency charts | CIMT notes | worksheet | |
Shape of a distribution | |||
Misleading diagrams |
Summarising data
Topic | Notes | ||
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Averages | |||
Averages from frequency tables | |||
Averages from grouped data | |||
Transforming data | |||
Measures of dispersion for discrete data | |||
Measures of dispersion for grouped data | |||
Box plots and outliers | CIMT notes | ||
Skewness | |||
Deciding which average to use | |||
Comparing data sets | |||
Making Estimates |
Scatter diagrams and correlation
Topic | Notes | ||
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Scatter Diagrams | CIMT notes | ||
Correlation | CIMT notes | ||
Causal relationships | |||
Line of best fit | CIMT notes | ||
Interpolation and Extrapolation | CIMT notes |
Time series
Topic | Notes | ||
---|---|---|---|
Line graphs and time series | folder | ||
Trend lines | |||
Variations in a time series | |||
Moving averages |
Probability
Topic | Notes | ||
---|---|---|---|
CIMT notes | exam questions general questions | ||
Experimental probability | |||
Using probability to assess risk | |||
Sample space diagrams | |||
Venn diagrams | |||
Mutually exclusive and exhaustive events | |||
Independent events | |||
Tree diagrams | |||
Conditional probability | Dr Frost PPT | worksheet | |
The formula for conditional probability |
Index Numbers
Topic | Notes | ||
---|---|---|---|
Index numbers | CIMT notes | ||
RPI, CPI, GDP | |||
Rates of change | CIMT notes |
LINKS
- Edexcel Text book – (login required)
- Miss Marcer’s Foundation Revision Cards – (print double sided)
- MrMaths Stats Revision Guide
- GCSE Stats Revision notes
- More revision notes
- Topic Sheets Mark Schemes
- Questions for you to have a go at with answers to check
Some grade D/C questions to try (non calc) - MrBarton Stats Guide