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Hey guys. I'm sorry if this has been answered before, but I have a question. So lets suppose I have a value of lets assume 50 and a standard error of lets says 2. How would I make the error bar for it? Do I add the '2' on both sides? As in up and down of the '50' mark. Or do I divide it by 2 and add '1' on both sides??
Please help me out guys!!
 
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Hey guys. I'm sorry if this has been answered before, but I have a question. So lets suppose I have a value of lets assume 50 and a standard error of lets says 2. How would I make the error bar for it? Do I add the '2' on both sides? As in up and down of the '50' mark. Or do I divide it by 2 and add '1' on both sides??
Please help me out guys!!

You multiply with 2 getting 4 in your example. And then you make 4 above and 4 below the 50
 
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How do u draw the histogram from may june 2007 paper 5 question 1 a)
Do u do the same as in maths, to calculate the frequency density?
 
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Aoa wr wb :)
I need some help with a few qns

For qn 2 c of this paper, why does the rate of loss increase??

http://papers.xtremepapers.com/CIE/...nd AS Level/Biology (9700)/9700_s12_qp_52.pdf
http://papers.xtremepapers.com/CIE/...nd AS Level/Biology (9700)/9700_s12_ms_52.pdf

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For qn 2 a of this paper, we need a stain, someone previously told me we use Giemsa, but i was just wondering, is there another one that's mentioned in the syllabus?

http://papers.xtremepapers.com/CIE/...nd AS Level/Biology (9700)/9700_s11_qp_51.pdf
http://papers.xtremepapers.com/CIE/...nd AS Level/Biology (9700)/9700_s11_ms_51.pdf
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For qn 2 d i of this paperm can someone please elaborate the ms answer ?

http://papers.xtremepapers.com/CIE/...nd AS Level/Biology (9700)/9700_s11_qp_52.pdf
http://papers.xtremepapers.com/CIE/...nd AS Level/Biology (9700)/9700_s11_ms_52.pdf

Thank you so much :)
 
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I'm not sure if you guys take any statistics. But if you do, you will know that in a normal distribution (one of the condition of the t-test), 68% of the data lies within one standard deviation from the mean, and 95% of the data lies within two standard deviations from the mean, and 99.7% of the data lies within three standard deviations from the mean.

In Biology, we're more concerned with something called the '95% confidence interval'. This is the range that we are 95% sure that the data's mean lies within it. In a normal distribution, we are 95% confident that the means of other sets of data lies within two standard deviations from the initial/calculated mean. We draw our error bars around that range.

Example: In a class, we have a mean height of 165 cm with a standard deviation of 5 cm. We draw the error bars from 165 - (2 x 5) to 165 + (2 x 5). This means that the error bars will extend from 155 cm to 175 cm.
 
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