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Edexcel AS and A Level Modular Mathematics - Statistics 1
Written by Chief Examiners and providing the best match to the specification, this title motivates students by making maths easier to learn. Suitable for the GCE specification, it features student-friendly worked examples and solutions, leading up to a wealth of practice questions. It also includes sample exam papers for exam preparation.
205 pages, Paperback
Published July 25, 2008
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January 11, 2018
I am a mature student going into university this year and my course will include some Statistics. Concerned with my complete lack of even basic statistics at this point I decided to get hold of this book in the hope of learning and getting myself up to an acceptable baseline before the course starts (actually this is my third book to that end). Finally I've found a great book that has done what I was hoping, and I have already ordered the next book in the series.
This book covers the following areas:
Measures of Location (Mean, median, mode)
Measures of Dispersion (variance, standard deviation, quartiles and percentiles)
Coding
Various graph representations of data (box plot, stem and leaf, histogram(
Probability
Correlation
Linear regression
Discrete random variables
Normal distribution
I was particularly happy with the amount of exercises in the book, which build on each other leading you from the most basic use of a new concept through to more complicated uses. As well as exercises to accompany each concept, there are exercises at the end of each chapter and a larger one every few chapters.
The CD that accompanied the book was also really good, including the entire book in a digital format (viewable using the proprietary software) and answers to all the questions in PDF format.
On the downside I did find that occasionally I would have liked to see more of the working out in the answers to understand how the book had got to the answer it did. In particular there are a couple of questions that I, and my friend who has a masters in statistics, concluded were answered incorrectly in the book. Also some of the material on the cd (the xhtml files) would not load for me at all (tried in IE, Firefox, and Chrome).
Very happy with this book, and keen to get started on the next one!
This book covers the following areas:
Measures of Location (Mean, median, mode)
Measures of Dispersion (variance, standard deviation, quartiles and percentiles)
Coding
Various graph representations of data (box plot, stem and leaf, histogram(
Probability
Correlation
Linear regression
Discrete random variables
Normal distribution
I was particularly happy with the amount of exercises in the book, which build on each other leading you from the most basic use of a new concept through to more complicated uses. As well as exercises to accompany each concept, there are exercises at the end of each chapter and a larger one every few chapters.
The CD that accompanied the book was also really good, including the entire book in a digital format (viewable using the proprietary software) and answers to all the questions in PDF format.
On the downside I did find that occasionally I would have liked to see more of the working out in the answers to understand how the book had got to the answer it did. In particular there are a couple of questions that I, and my friend who has a masters in statistics, concluded were answered incorrectly in the book. Also some of the material on the cd (the xhtml files) would not load for me at all (tried in IE, Firefox, and Chrome).
Very happy with this book, and keen to get started on the next one!
March 20, 2013
Still the most user - friendly and accessible AS S1 modular math(s) book.
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