COMM 291 Lecture 1: Comm291-Week1

• School: UBC
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 291
• Professor: Jonathan Berkowitz

Document Summary

Commerce 291 lecture notes 2016 jonathan berkowitz. Not to be copied, used, or revised without explicit written permission from the copyright owner. The word statistics comes from the latin word for the state , because the first data collection was for the purposes of the state tax collection and military service. Birth and mortality rates appeared in england in the 17th century, about the same time that french mathematicians were laying the groundwork for probability by studying gambling problems. Applications to studies of heredity, agriculture and psychology were developed by the great english scientists, galton, pearson, and fisher, who gave us many of techniques we use today. With such a diversity of origin, it is not surprising that the word statistics means different things to different people. Small-s statistics (i. e. what are statistics?) numerical or quantifiable facts computations based on these facts (e. g. average or percentage) Measurements, counts, ranks a synonym for data .