CMST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Descriptive Statistics, Statistical Inference, Categorical Variable

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2A03
• Professor: Terry Flynn

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Average: 57%, ranged from 29 87% Should be posting practice quiz for next test. Doesn"t believe in bell curve, will take questions out for this test (improve on mark) Chapter 4 descriptive statistical reasoning and computer analysis. Look at the data and see which questions were asked. Report should include descriptive but a max of 3 forms of analysis that were covered during class. Frequencies (how many people, difference of men versus women, where they are from, their income) How many csmm students are there in the faculty of humanities. Or research can help us by inferring certain responses: Above is defined as just describing the data, however it doesn"t tell us about the significance of the data. This when we start to infer: describing the data is like the appetizer to inferring the data. When we start to infer, we ask questions like how likely are first year students to choose communication.