The final school leaving examination, as well as the university entrance examinations, are related to the compulsory part only. This part does not offer stochastics. The suggested curriculum for the optional part contains a unit on stochastics during the last 2 years. This unit starts with descriptive statistics, explaining the mathematical beckground of the location and dispersion parameters. These are used to motivate the introduction of concepts in probability.
Probability is restricted to the discrete case.
Its means are then used to formulate and solve statistical decision problems and estimation tasks. There are now 19 highly maths-specialized classes per year in the country, where, depending on the teacher's decision, this unit may be dealt with much more in depth, reaching the level of a simpler introductory university course. Textbooks for both kinds of options are written by the first author of this article. Statistics is receiving more direct attention in schools specialized in economics and computer technology. They follow the same philosophy as in the optional parts referred to above, but greater emphasis is placed on concrete calculations, and solution of problems.