Introduction to Statistics

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What is Statistics?

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The science of collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting data to assist in making more effective decisions.

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What are the two major branches of Statistics?

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Descriptive statistics and Inferential statistics.

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What is Descriptive Statistics?

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Methods of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in an informative way.

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What is Inferential Statistics?

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Methods used to determine something about a population based on a sample.

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What is a Parameter?

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A numerical description of a population characteristic.

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What is a Statistic?

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A numerical description of a sample characteristic.

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What are the types of data?

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Qualitative data and Quantitative data.

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What is Qualitative Data?

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Data that consists of attributes, labels, or non-numerical entries.

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What is Quantitative Data?

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Data that consists of numerical measurements or counts.

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What are the two subgroups of Qualitative Data?

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Dichotomic and Polynomic.