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How to use and understand statistics: good briefs

3 September, 2010 - 11:30

Regular readers will have noticed that things have been quiet around here for a while. I’ll be back to blogging properly in a while.

In the meantime, I am dead impressed by this collection of very accessible briefs from the House of Commons Library (of all places). The briefs are easy to understand, and they will be useful for people who are trying to write good analysis as well as for people who want to understand the statistics that they are reading.

Here are links to the briefs (all of which are pdf files):