ARTSSCI 2R03 Lecture 2: W1L1 Intro to Stats (2)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Arts & Science
• Course: ARTSSCI 2R03
• Professor: Fred Hoppe

Document Summary

Statistics is abody of scientific knowledge that deals with collection escrpiton, analysis and interpreatation of observations or experimental results. Population: set of individuals or objects being studied whether real or hypothetical (the effect of a particular drug on a group of people). Variable x vale attached to each member of population. Categorical: variables lie in groups or categories. Distributive collection of all values (a1) including multiplicities. Important because some are more prevalent than others. Each member may have more than one value of interest.