Statistics and probability
Statistics and probability are tools that people use to help them understand the world about us and assists in making decisions. Statistics help us compare things – by reducing the information into easily manageable chunks. Probability can be used to tell us how likely an event is to occur. It may be linked with statistics, by measuring how often the event happened in the past, or based purely on the theoretical laws of chance.
Of course there are lies, damn lies and statistics, but this is usually because the statistics have been wrongly reported (so they can dupe people who do not know how they should be reported). The purpose of the Mathagony Aunt statistics’ pages is to help you understand something about statistics.
At present, in this section we will investigate the binomial theorem. The binomial theorem is based on chance and gives us information on how likely an event, or series of events, is to occur – such as winning Lotto (the National Lottery). If you want to see the binomial theorem in action, calculating the probability of choosing cards using extra-sensory perception, click on the link: ESP experiment
To help you understand the binomial theorem there are a few pieces of mathematics that you may or may not have seen before: factorials, probability and combinations and permutations.
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levels of significance and significance testing
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