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Component 4: Independent Investigation (NEA)
Quick questions on Geographical and statistical skills - Eduqas A-Level Geography
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What are the four AO3 skill areas?Show answer
The skills are not a separate topic but run through the whole course. Cartographic skills cover reading and constructing maps of many kinds, OS maps, choropleth, isoline, flow-line and proportional-symbol maps, and GIS outputs. Graphical skills cover constructing and interpreting line, bar, scatter, logarithmic, compound and triangular graphs, pie charts, population pyramids and Lorenz curves, and identifying trends and anomalies. Numerical and statistical skills cover percentages, rates, indices, descriptive statistics and tests.
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Write the formula for Spearman's rank correlation and define its terms. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why a significance test is needed after calculating a correlation coefficient. [3 marks]
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