Statistics Quest

Practice

Practise until it sticks

Choose a topic, a skill or a difficulty. Calculation exercises have new versions with fresh numbers once you have solved them, so you can practise the method rather than memorise an answer.

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Practice, difficulty 1 of 3

Steps in choosing a chart

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Put these steps for choosing and checking a chart in a sensible order.

Put the steps in order (use the arrows)

  1. 1Pick the default chart for that combination
  2. 2Add a title that states the finding, labelled axes and units
  3. 3Check the data for features the default could hide (zeros, outliers, small groups)
  4. 4Identify the variables involved and their types (categorical, ordinal, numeric, time)
  5. 5Write down the question the chart must answer