Guides

Guides for teaching statistics

Short, practical walkthroughs for the classroom, making the standard NCEA graphs, explaining inference, and getting the most out of KiwiGrapher.

Launch the app

April 15, 2026 • KiwiGrapher

Choosing the right graph for your data

A quick decision guide for picking the right statistical graph: dot plot, histogram, bar graph, scatter, pie or time series, based on the kind of data you have.

March 4, 2026 • KiwiGrapher

Bootstrap confidence intervals explained

What a bootstrap confidence interval is, why it works, and how to build one in KiwiGrapher to estimate a population parameter from a single sample.

February 10, 2026 • KiwiGrapher

How to make a box plot for NCEA

A step-by-step guide to making a dot plot with a box-and-whisker overlay in KiwiGrapher, the standard display for comparing groups in NCEA statistics.