Introduction to
Statistics – lecture
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Statistics A set of tools and techniques that is used for describing, organizing, and
interpreting information or data
Example of statistics Number of students in a particular curriculum speed of problem-solving, or
average cost of dinner
Purpose of statistics Making decisions with incomplete data
Data A record of an observation or an event such as a test score, grade in a class, or
response time, one!
Data Set A collection of observations or events such as test scores, grades on a test, or
response times
Descriptive statistics Used to organize and describe the characteristics of a collection of data;
measures of central tendency (CT) and measures of variability
Inferential statistics Used to make generalizations from a smaller group of subjects (a sample to a
larger group of subjects (a population); won't have access to the entire
population
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