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Topic 1 Planning An Investigation
What is an hypothesis,
What must a hypothesis be,
What are the five stages of the s...
15
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Topic 1 Types Of Data
What is raw data,
What is quantitative data,
What is qualitative data
12
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Topic 1 Simplifying Data
Why is simplifying data useful,
Why is simplifying data a disadva...,
Advantages of combining categories
3
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Topic 1 Grouping Data #
What is important to remember whe...,
Pros of grouping data,
Cons of grouping data
3
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Topic 1 Data Sources #
What is primary data,
Ways to gather primary data,
Pros of primary data
8
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Topic 1 Populations And Sampling
What is the population,
What is a census,
Pros of a census
9
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Random Sampling
What is random sampling,
What do you need in order to do r...,
Pros of random sampling
7
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Stratified Sampling
What does stratified sampling use,
What does stratified sampling giv...,
When is stratified sampling useful
7
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Systematic And Cluster Sampling
What is systematic sampling,
When can you use systematic sampling,
How does systematic sampling work
13
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Quota, Opportunity And Judgement Sampling
What is quota sampling,
When is the method of quota sampl...,
What is quota sampling also known as
13
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Questionaires-
What are closed questions in a qu...,
Pros of closed questions,
Cons of closed questions
26
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Interviewz #
What happens in an interview,
Where can interviews take place,
Advantages of interview
4
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Observation And Reference Sources #
What does observation involve,
What is counting used for,
What is measuring used for
8
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Experiments
What is a variable,
What do experiments measure,
What is the explanatory variable
12
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Lab, Field, Natural Experiments
What are lab experiments,
Advantages of lab experiments,
Disadvantage of laboratory experi...
8
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Simulation
What is a simulation,
Why is using simulation useful,
What can you use to simulate data
4
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Problems With Collected Data
Why might some data be outliers,
Things to look out for,
When there are problems with the ...
5
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Frequency Tabkes
What type of data can be used in ...,
What is a frequency table,
What is an advantage of a frequen...
3
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Grouped Frequency Tables
When are troubled frequency table...,
What is the data spilt into group...,
Should class intervals overlap
10
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Two Way Tables
What are two way tables used for
1
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Intepreting Tables
Things you need to do to interpre...
1
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Bar Charts
What is a pictogram,
What do pictograms need,
What do comparative bar charts do
9
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Stem And Keaf Diagrams
What do stem and leaf diagrams show,
What must stems and leaf diagrams...
2
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Population Oyramids And Choropleth Maps -
What are population pyramids,
What are population pyramids used...,
What kind of population shows tha...
7
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Pie Chafts-
What do pie charts show,
What does the size of each sector...,
How to calculate the angle for ea...
4
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Comparative Pie Charts *****
What does it mean if a pie chart ...,
How to find the other radius equa...
2
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Bertical Line Charts And Frequency Polygons
What is a vertical line chart,
What do vertical line charts show,
What does frequency polygon use
7
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Cumulative Frequancy Diagrams
What type of data are cumulative ...,
What is cumulative frequency,
What type of data is the cumulati...
5
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Histograms-
What type of data are histograms ...,
What is on the x axis of a histogram,
What is on the y axis of a histogram
10
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Shape Of Distribution
What is symmetrical distribution,
Bimodal distribution,
Uniform distribution
6
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Scatter Diagrams
What type of data are scatter dia...,
Where do you plot the explanatory...,
Where do you plot the response va...
9
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Time Series Graohs
Which axis is time on,
Which axis is the other variable on,
What is a trend line
8
cards
Choosing How To Represent Data
What should you consider when cho...,
Why is data considered,
What is suited for bivariate data
7
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Misleading Diagrams
What pictures should you use for ...,
How can colours be used to mislea...,
What can make a pie chart misleading
3
cards
Mean, Median, Mode
What is the mode,
What is the median,
What is the equation for median
22
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Averages From Frequancy Tabkes
How to find the mean from frequen...,
To find median,
Mode
3
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Averages From Grouped Data
What is the modal class,
Estimated mean equation,
What can you estimate the median ...
4
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Measures Of Spread
What is the range of data,
How do you find the range of data,
What is q1 called
27
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Grouped Data Measures If Spread
What happens to the interquartile...,
How could you estimate the interq...,
How could you use cumulative freq...
3
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Standard Deviation
What does standard deviation measure,
What does a small standard deviat...,
What values are used in standard ...
3
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Standard Deviation Frim Frequancy Tabkes
Formula for standard deviation in...,
What do you do if you have groupe...
2
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Box Plous
What do box plots show,
Why are box plots useful,
When are box plots useful
5
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Outliers
What are outliers,
What can outlier show,
What can outliers be found by
7
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Skewness Of Data
What does the skegness describe,
What does it mean if the data is ...,
What does a positive skew mean
16
cards
Comparing Cata Sets
What can you compare data sets using,
How can averages be used to compa...,
What can be used to show the meas...
10
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Standardised Scirss
When do you use standardised scores,
Standardised score formula,
What are the mean and the standar...
7
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Index Nubers
What are index numbers used for,
Index number equation,
What can you tell from the index ...
17
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Rates If Change
What can population be analysed by,
What do rates tell you,
What is a crude rate
6
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Estumatinf Population Characterustics
What can you use to make estimate...,
Why is sample size important
2
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Estimating Populatikn Sizes
What is peterson capture recaptur...,
Steps of petersons capture recapture,
Petersons capture recapture formula
5
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Skattee Diagrams Correlatin
What is an association,
What can you plot at scatter diag...,
What is a positive correlation
10
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Scatter Disgrams Using Lines If Best Fit
What is a line of best fit,
What can you use the lines of bes...,
What is interpolation
4
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Scatter Diagrams Regression Lines
What is the form of a line writte...,
What does the value a mean,
What does the value b mean
4
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Spearmans Rank Correlation Coefficient
What is spearman s rank correlati...,
What does spearman s rank always ...,
What does spearman s rank correla...
9
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Interpreting Cirrekation Coeficients
What does pearsons product moment...,
Between what values can pearsons ...,
What does the value of pearsons p...
11
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Time Series
What is the time series graph,
What does moving point averages d...,
How to find moving average
7
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Probabkity
What is probability a measure of,
Words to describe how likely an e...,
What is an outcome
4
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Relatjve Frequancy And Risk
What is relative frequency,
Relative frequency equation,
What makes the probability more a...
8
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Expected And Actual Frequencies
What is expected frequency,
Expected frequency formula,
What is the easiest way to compar...
3
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Samole Slace Diagrams
What is a sample space,
What is a sample space diagram,
What are cartesian grids
4
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Venn Diagrams And Two Way Tavkes
What is the total sum of all the ...
1
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The Addition Law
What are mutually exclusive events,
How to find the probability that ...,
How to find the probability that ...
5
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Independent Events
What does it mean if 2 events are...,
Multiplication law for independen...,
Probability of atleast 1 formula
3
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Tres Diagrans
4 steps of how to use tree diagrams
1
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Conditional Pronabilty
What is conditional probability,
What is conditional probability w...
2
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Binomial Distributiom #
Done on paper
1
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Normal Distributikn #
What data is used to normal distr...,
What is normal distribution drawn as,
What is the distribution
7
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Quality Asshrance
What is quality assurance,
What are sample averages or range...,
Why do you use sample averages or...
9
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