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Statistics Course Breakdown Course Summary • Exam board is Edexcel Paper Content Marks Duration Weighting Paper 1 Data and Probability 80 2 hours 33.3% Paper 2 Statistical Inference 80 2 hours 33.3% Paper 3 Statistics in Practice 80 2 hours 33.3% Summary of Content Suggested Preparation for September Data and Probability Students need to be confident in applying statistical techniques and simple algebraic skills from GCSE techniques: Numerical measures, graphs and diagrams; Probability; Population and samples; Introduction to probability distributions; Binomial distribution; Normal distribution; Correlation and linear regression; Bayes’ theorem; Probability distributions; Experimental design; Exponential and Poisson distributions. • Calculating mean, median and mode. • Calculating standard deviation, range and interquartile. • Different ways of representing data. Statistical Inference Correlation and linear regression; Introduction to hypothesis testing; Contingency tables; One and two sample non-parametric tests; Experimental design; Sampling, estimates and resampling; Hypothesis testing, significance testing, confidence intervals and power; Hypothesis testing for 1 and 2 samples; Paired tests; Goodness of fit; Analysis of variance; Effect size; Statistical Enquiry Cycle (SEC). Statistics in Practice • Rearranging linear equations. Students should review these topics and practise questions on them using GCSE revision guides/the internet. Students will need to purchase a CASIO fx-991 EX (ClassWiz) scientific calculator. Other calculators are unfortunately not suitable. This is a new calculator designed for the new specification and includes statistical functions that are not present on other scientific calculators. This is a synoptic paper. Questions can be set on any part of the course content outlined above. C SirJohnDeanes A SirJohnDeanes www.sjd.ac.uk 38

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