Statistics for Medicine, Business and more.

Making a decision is pretty tricky, let alone the correct one.

If you require any additional information or advice on this course, please contact Mr Higgins on m.higgins@brightongirls.gdst.net.

These sessions will enable you to use data to calculate the chance of error in the decision you have made. The two outcomes we will look are:

  1. You stated that something has changed, even though it was a false assumption.
  2. You stated something hasn’t changed even though it was a true assumption.
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In medicine, we use these error rates to calculate the chance of misdiagnosis or not picking up the illness in the first place.

Lesson 1 - Sampling distributions

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/sampling-distributions-library

Lesson 2  - Confidence intervals

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/confidence-intervals-one-sample

Lesson 3 - Significance tests (Hypothesis testing)

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/significance-tests-one-sample

If you require any additional information or advice on this course, please contact Mr Higgins on m.higgins@brightongirls.gdst.net.