GEOG 3MB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rational Number, Categorical Variable, Homicide
13 Sep 2016
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Office hours: tuesdays at 1pm or by appointment. 10 online quizzes worth 3% (0. 3% each) 1 midterm worth 30% (in class november 4th) 5 bonus labs worth 5% (1% each) Labs begin the week of september 19th. Midterm is in class on november 4th. Quizzes: made available friday, due by monday morning. September 9th, 2016 types of things, types of data. An attribute of characteristic of a thing; can be numbers (i. e. cost), weight, length, porosity, texture, measure of health status. A complete group of things with one of more descriptive properties. Use it informally, but the meaning is philosophically complex. I. e. distance from shore of all pirate attacks in a region during a 3 month period (numbers are properties) Some number that describes a property of a population; usually a single number. I. e. average distance from shore of all pirate attacks. A set of data selected from a population using some specified set of rules.
