EAS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sewage Treatment, Statistical Inference, International Standard Book Number
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Statistics (the discipline) is a way of reasoning, along with a collection of tools and methods, designed to help us understand the world with the use of data. or. Statistics (plural) are particular calculations made from data. In this course, we will cover statistical theory, including the collection, the organization and the interpretation of data. They can be numbers, record names, or other labels. An experiment usually results in different outcomes (variability) and we want to study the reason(s) for the variability: ex: different concentrations of chemical in water samples at a sewage treatment plant. Social science: are there any changes in the proportion of women working outside their homes. Find the statistics: use appropriate statistical tools, to find answer to question. Use formal data analysis and make statistical inference. 3 of 12 words, generalize the finding from the sample to the entire population, if possible.
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