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Nuffield: can they tell the difference?

This resource links to a series of resources for Level 3 statistics developed by the Nuffield Foundation.

They deal with probability and hypothesis testing in a variety of different areas, making use of proportion, significance test, null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, normal distribution, mean, standard deviation, critical values, critical region, significance levels, one tail and two tail tests, sampling. 

Each of the seven activities contain a presentation, detailed teachers' notes and activity sheets for students.

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