Hodder Education
AQA A Level Further Mathematics Statistics
AQA A Level Further Mathematics Statistics
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Build your knowledge and understanding with guidance and assessment preparation covering the Statistics options of the new AS and A-level specifications, from a team of subject experts and authors sourced from MEI.
- Build reasoning and problem-solving skills with practice questions and well-structured exercises that improve statistical techniques.
- Develop a fuller understanding of statistics concepts with real world examples that help build connections between topics and develop modelling skills.
- Address misconceptions and develop problem-solving with annotated worked examples.
- Supports you at every stage of your learning with graduated exercises that improve understanding and measure progress.

Language
English
ISBN
9781510434585
Cover
Title Page
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Contents
Getting the most from this book
Prior knowledge
Acknowledgements
1 Statistical problem solving
1.1 The problem solving cycle
2 Bivariate data and correlation coefficients
2.1 Describing variables
2.2 Interpreting scatter diagrams
2.3 Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient
2.4 Rank correlation
3 The binomial distribution
3.1 The binomial distribution
3.2 Hypothesis testing using the binomial distribution
3.3 Critical values and critical regions
3.4 One-tailed and two-tailed tests
4 Conditional probability
4.1 Screening tests
Practice questions: set 1
5 Discrete random variables
5.1 Notation and conditions for a discrete random variable
5.2 Expectation and variance
5.3 Expectation and variance of the uniform distribution and a linear function of a random variable
5.4 The expectation and variance of functions of discrete random variables
6 The Poisson distribution
6.1 When to use the Poisson distribution
6.2 The sum of two or more Poisson distributions
7 The chi-squared test on a contingency table
7.1 The chi-squared test on a contingency table
8 Continuous random variables 1
8.1 Probability density function
8.2 Expectation and variance
8.3 The Normal distribution
8.4 The distribution of sample means
Practice questions: set 2
9 Continuous random variables 2
9.1 The expectation and variance of a function of X
9.2 The cumulative distribution function
10 Confidence intervals using the Normal and t-distributions
10.1 The sums and differences of Normal variables
10.2 More than two independent random variables
10.3 The distribution of the sample mean
10.4 The theory of confidence intervals
10.5 Interpreting sample data using the t-distribution
11 Hypothesis tests and their power
11.1 Hypotheses for a test for a mean
11.2 The power of a test
12 The rectangular and exponential dist ributions
12.1 The continuous uniform (rectangular) distribution
12.2 The exponential distribution
Practice questions: set 3
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