Session B
Analysing information for solving problems and making decisions
1 Introduction
Most of this session (and some of the next) is about how you can analyse numerical information to inform the problem-solving and decision-making process. This includes analysing it in ways that will probably be very familiar such as totals and percentages and how you can use basic statistics to gain a better understanding of it.
You may have bad memories of statistics if you’ve ever done any before, but don’t worry. Mostly we’ll be suggesting that you use a spreadsheet to do the painful calculations – all you have to do is enter a few figures and understand ...
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