STAT 2060 Lecture 1: Week 1 Lectures

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Statistics
• Course: STAT 2060
• Professor: Lorne Bennett

Document Summary

1: a characteristic of a sample (we will come back to this shortly!) 2: the science of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, presenting, and making conclusions from data. To answer these (and other!) questions, we must: It"s making people healthy http://www. cbc. ca/news/business/pokemon-go-exercise-1. 3727123, aug. 21, 2016. An article on cbc. ca discusses the pokemon go craze, and brings into question the social media backlash against pokemon hunters when there appears to be a positive health bene t associated with playing the game. In particular, the article makes the statement sixty per cent of american millennials surveyed in a new manulife poll said playing the game has upped their activity levels , and links to the following info-graphic: Let"s use this example to de ne some important terms: In statistics, we can use information from our sample data, and our sample statistics, to make state- ments about the corresponding population parameters.