PSYC 2020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.1: Statistical Parameter, Statistic, Sampling Error

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2020
• Professor: Alistair Mapp

Document Summary

Statistics consist of facts and gures such as the average annual snowfall in denver. Usually informative and time saving - candice large quantities of information into a few simple figures. Specifically, we use the term statistics to refer to a general eld of mathematics. For example, you are probably using this book for a statistics course in which you will learn about the statistical techniques that are used to summarize and evaluate research results in the behavioral sciences. Research in the behavioral sciences (and other elds) involves gathering information. 1. statistics are used to organize and summarize the information so that the researcher can see what happened in the research study and can communicate the results to others. 2. statistics help the researcher to answer the questions that initiated the research by determining exactly what general conclusions are justi ed based on the speci c results that were obtained.