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How to write a statistical report

Plan of the report

1- Draft your introduction:The introduction of your report identifies the purpose of your research 2- Present your results:Report the specific findings of your research.3- State your conclusions This section provides analysis and defines your results within the overall context of you statistical research When you get to this section of your report, leave the heavy, statistical language behind. This section should be easy for anyone to understand, even if they skipped over your results.4- List your references You should include a table or list of any books or articles you used in completing your research, or that you referred to in the report itself.

Introductory expressions

• As you will see from this graph ...
• I'd like to show you this chart on which you will see ...
• Let me draw your attention to this part of the graph.
• Let's look more closely at this month's figures.
• This figure refers to the sales in China only.
• This pie chart shows...
• As you can see...
• The bar chart represents...
• Here you can see a comparison between ...
• On the line graph you will note
• The report is about...

Expressing reason, result and consequence

Reason

Result or consequence

• As a result
• So
• Therefore
• Thus
• That's why
• Consequently
• As a consequence
• Resulted in

• Due to
• Because of
• Was the reason for
• Because
• Accounts for
• On account of
• Thanks to

Concluding expressions

• We must focus our attention on ...
• What I suggest is ...
• There is a necessity for ...
• We need more ...
• We have no choice but to ...
• Appropriate measures must be taken
• The only option we have is to ...
• These changes are inevitable.
• We will have to revise our estimation.
• The result / outcome will be ...
• I strongly recommend ...
• To conclude, I am happy
• I reret to announce that ...