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Statistical Report Writing School of Mathematics , The University of Manchester.Contents 1 Summary 2 2 Introduction 2 3 Structure 2 3.1 Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2 Summary/Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.3 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.4 Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.5 Results, conclusions and recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.6 General discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.8 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …show more content…

It should also provide the aims of the investigation, together with some indication of the methods used. It may well be an expanded version of the summary, and in general should not exceed two pages in length. 3.4 Methods These should now be described in a fair amount of detail, including any theory that is necessary. How much detail is always di±cult to decide. Aim to write as though for someone of comparable standing, e.g. a student in the same year as yourself, who does not know anything in detail about the subject of the re- port. The reader should be able to repeat the study on the basis of your report. Don 't be afraid of putting very detailed and long descriptions into one or more appendices. This component may well have to be split into sections, e.g. 31. a preliminary analysis, using graphical and simple descriptive methods, 2. a full-scale analysis. The second section may further have to be split into two subsections e.g. (a) a description, explanation or development of the methodology to be used, (b) the actual analysis. Subsection (a) will probably need to be quite technical, certainly more technical than the rest of the report. It should describe in detail the precise mathemat- ical/statistical tools and techniques to be used and reveal the manner in

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