Statistics Part 1: Problem Solving with the Casio fx-991ES Calculator
Allen Brown
Paperback
(Nielsen ISBN Store, May 9, 2016)
Statistics is an integral part of your A Level maths syllabus and you will be expected to gain a reasonable working knowledge of the subject. No doubt you will have heard the word statistics on many occasions and in this part of your course you will gain a better understanding of what statistics is all about. Statistics deals with numbers, in particular sets of numbers that are normally derived from measurements. However unlike other areas of mathematics, statistics relates to uncertainty. The first chapter is therefore on probability and how it relates to statistics. As you will discover, statistics is about calculating best estimates and determining the confidence in those estimates. You will be introduced to methods for dealing with differentlytypes of data, small data sets or samples taken from much larger data sets.