Venn Diagrams What is a Venn diagram? A?Venn?diagram is a way to illustrate?events?and are particularly useful when?outcomes?overlap Venn diagrams are mostly used for 2 or 3 events A Venn diagram c...
Probability Basics What do I need to know about probability for AS and A level Mathematics? The language used in probability can be confusing so here are some definitions of commonly misunderstood ...
Skewness The distribution of a data set is either symmetrical or it has skewness. What is skewness? Skewness describes the way in which data in a non – symmetrical distribution is leaning A distrib...
Interpreting Data You may be asked to comment on how statistics could affect data or how removing or adding a new piece of data could change statistics you have calculated. You may also be asked to...
Histograms What is a histogram? A histogram is similar to a bar chart but with some?key differences A histogram is for displaying?grouped continuous data?whereas a bar chart is for?discrete?or?qual...
Box Plots What is a box plot? A box plot is a graph that clearly shows key statistics from a data set It shows the?median, quartiles, minimum?and?maximum values?and?outliers It does not show any ot...
Stem and Leaf Diagrams What is a stem and leaf diagram? A?stem?and?leaf?diagram shows?ALL?RAW?data and groups it into?class?intervals Stem and leaf diagrams lend themselves to two-digit data but ca...
Data Presentation What graphs and diagrams should I be familiar with? You will be expected to be able to use a variety of graphs such as: Stem-and-leaf diagrams ?Can be used with ungrouped data of ...
Coding Sometimes data needs to be coded for further use with calculations. This is particularly useful with data that deals with very small or very large numbers, or with data that needs to be clas...
