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IGCSE Statistics Syllabus

1. The Statistical Enquiry Cycle

Students are expected to understand and follow the stages of a statistical enquiry:
- Formulating hypotheses or questions.
- Designing the data collection process: identifying data sources, types of data (primary vs.
secondary), and how data can be collected.
- Data collection: surveys, experiments, observations.
- Data processing and analysis: organizing, summarizing, and presenting data.
- Interpretation: making conclusions based on data and checking the validity of those
conclusions.

6. Measures of Dispersion

- Range: difference between the highest and lowest values.


- Interquartile Range (IQR): Q3 - Q1 (spread of the middle 50% of data).
- Variance and Standard Deviation (for both ungrouped and grouped data).

2. Types of Data

- Qualitative vs. Quantitative data.


- Discrete vs. Continuous data.
- Primary vs. Secondary data.
- Grouped and ungrouped data.

3. Data Collection Methods

- Surveys: questionnaires, interviews, observations.


- Sampling methods: random, systematic, stratified, quota, cluster sampling.
- Census vs. sample surveys.
4. Data Presentation

- Tables: frequency tables, grouped frequency tables, and tally charts.


- Charts and graphs:
- Bar charts, pie charts, pictograms.
- Line graphs, histograms.
- Scatter diagrams (for bivariate data), cumulative frequency graphs (ogives).
- Stem-and-leaf diagrams.
- Frequency distributions: interpreting grouped data.

5. Measures of Central Tendency

- Mean: arithmetic mean, combined mean.


- Median: calculating the median from both discrete and grouped data.
- Mode: identifying the modal class.
- Comparing mean, median, and mode and when each measure is most appropriate.

7. Probability

- Basic probability principles: sample space, complementary events, mutually exclusive


events.
- Addition rule: P(A ∪ B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A ∩ B).
- Multiplication rule: P(A ∩ B) = P(A) × P(B|A).
- Independent and dependent events.
- Conditional probability.
- Tree diagrams and Venn diagrams.
- Experimental probability vs. theoretical probability.

8. Correlation

- Scatter diagrams: plotting and interpreting correlation (positive, negative, or no


correlation).
- Line of best fit: understanding trends and predictions.
- Correlation coefficient: qualitative understanding.
9. Time Series

- Plotting and interpreting time series graphs.


- Trend analysis: recognizing and describing trends in data.
- Seasonal variation: smoothing data using moving averages.

10. Index Numbers

- Simple index numbers: base year comparisons.


- Weighted index numbers: calculating weighted averages.
- Price and quantity indices (e.g., Laspeyres and Paasche indices).

11. Permutations and Combinations (Optional)

- Basic concepts of factorials.


- Counting principles: permutations and combinations used for probability problems.

Assessment Structure

- Paper 1 (1 hour 30 minutes): Short-answer and structured questions (30%).


- Paper 2 (2 hours): Longer, structured questions requiring more detailed responses (70%).

Each paper covers all the topics, but Paper 2 generally involves deeper, more complex
applications of statistical methods.

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