QTM 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)

• School: Emory University
• Department: Quantitative Theory & Methods
• Course: QTM 100
• Professor: Jacobson Jeremy

Document Summary

Understand the effect of study design on interpretation of results. Study design can lead to impossible use of statistical measures. Identify appropriate statistical methods when presented with data. Use r as a tool to perform statistical analysis. Answers not posted on canvas, must take note of answers in lecture. Statistics is the art and science of learning from data. ". More formally, statistics is a scientific methodology that deals with the collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts or data. Foundations of statistics, describing variables, and focus on categorical variables. To use statistics one must consider the following: Formulate as precisely as possible your question of interest. Not a statistical question are violent crimes related to violent video games. Too vague, need a more discrete population of interest. Effective data presentation and description is a first step in most analyses. A lady at a shop insists on having a new tea because hers was made in the wrong order.