Level 3 Advanced Statistics

Teacher in Charge:  Mrs Liz Seager lseager@wdsg.school.nz

Course description:
“Mathematicians and statisticians use symbols, graphs and diagrams to help them communicate patterns and relationships, and they create models to represent real-life and hypothetical situations. These situations are drawn from a wide range of social, cultural, scientific, technological, health, environmental and economic contexts.” (NZC 2007)

This course provides the statistical background needed for tertiary study in Statistics, Biological and Social Sciences, Medicine, Business, Management and any field where data collection and analysis are important. You will study aspects of probability, statistics and algebra. All work is set in practical contexts and students develop skills in using statistics to reach valid conclusions. You will use computer technology to support your learning and assessment.

To be highly successful in this course, you must be able to demonstrate sophisticated thinking across a range of statistical and algebraic concepts and be able to work with logic, precision and clarity to solve unfamiliar problems.

Course of study:
As a Level 3 Advanced Statistics student, you will study concepts and skills connected within and across the following topics:

• Statistical investigation (Bivariate and Inference).

• Probability concepts.

• Probability distributions.

• Evaluating statistical reports.