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• What is it? Background information about the tutorial.
• What does it cover? An outline of all the topics covered in the tutorial.
• Who is it for? How you can benefit from the tutorial.
- Teaching Using S4T in teaching.
- Professional How S4T can help you in your professional life.
- General interest Gain a better understanding of Statistics - and the world!
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• History How Statistics for the Terrified came to be written, and later versions developed.

• Single-user - a demonstration of our approaches and techniques.
• Multi-user - the full tutorial on a time-limited license for evaluation by organisations.

- What is risk? The nature of risk, and how to assess media statements of increased or decreased risk.
- Conditional probability A look at conditional probability, using the example of health tests.
- Median and mean? The use of 'averages', illustrated by a media debate on UK household incomes.
- Evening the odds Handling problems in probability, using the Professor Roy Meadows case
- The prosecutor's fallacy How probability can confuse the law courts
- Clinical trials Some general issues following a drugs trial which ended with six men on life support.
- n - sample size How a larger sample size helps uncover a significant result.