1. Press
Using randomisation on spreadsheets to enhance statistical understanding
Neil Sheldon
Manchester Grammar School
Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education

2. Press Data in textbooks and examination papers are static
But data in the real world are dynamic
Every time you sample you get different data
And if the data are different the conclusions may be different too

3. Press Statistical concepts that everyone should understand
Probability is long-run relative frequency
All data should be understood against some sense of the background variation
Variation can be controlled by taking larger samples

4. Press Statistical concepts in MEI S1 Data representation
Calculating summary data
especially the tricky issue of divisor n and n − 1
The meaning of probability
The use of the binomial distribution
The concepts of hypothesis testing

5. Press Statistical concepts in MEI S2
Correlation: PMCC and Spearman’s coefficient
Regression
The use of the Poisson distribution
including approximating the binomial
The use of the Normal distribution
including approximating the binomial and Poisson
Chi-squared tests on contingency tables

6. Press Statistical concepts in MEI S3 Central limit theorem
The t distribution
Chi-squared goodness of fit

7. Press
Using randomisation on spreadsheets to enhance statistical understanding
Neil Sheldon
Manchester Grammar School
Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education