SOCSCI 2J03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Royal Institute Of Technology, Sampling Bias, Statistical Classification

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SOCSCI 2J03
• Professor: Rizwan Tahir

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A poll of 176,903 american adults, aged 18 and older, was conducted january 2 to december 30, 2014, as part of the gallup-healthways well-being index survey. The poll found that while 54. 1% of these americans said that they were thriving, 3. 8% mentioned that they were suffering. (see case study 1 2. ) The numbers that represent the income of a family, the age of a student, the percentage of passes completed by the quarterback of a football team. The second meaning of statistics refers to the field or discipline of study. Statistics is the science of collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data, as well as of making decisions based on such analyses. 1. 2 basic terms example, a person, firm, item, state, or country) about which the information is collected. An element or member of a sample or population is a specific subject or object (for. A variable is a characteristic under study that assumes different values for different.