Statistics - A Powerful Edge! Second Edition is a resource book from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) about getting the most from statistics. It is published for secondary students of Mathematics and Information Studies,
although it is expected that the book will find a wider use amongst other students, teachers and general readers.
The book aims to assist students:
gain confidence in using statistical information to complete study requirements;
appreciate the importance of statistical information in today’s society; and
make critical use of information that is presented to them, whatever its source.
All these goals are at the heart of the ABS mission to assist informed decision-making in the Australian community.
Along with extensive text, the book contains exercises to help students consolidate their understanding of presented material.
This edition has updated much of the data that was used in the original version so as to keep examples and exercises as relevant and topical as possible. Developments in technology, such as the growing use of the Internet and CDRoms, also led to sections being rewritten.
The release of this edition continues the ABS’s commitment to provide service and appropriate resource materials to the education sector in Australia.
I trust that Statistics - A Powerful Edge! Second Edition will assist Australia’s students to strengthen their understanding and use of statistics, both in their current studies and in future years.
W. McLennan
Australian Statistician
July 1998
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