GGR270H1 Lecture Notes - Standard Deviation, Descriptive Statistics
15 Oct 2013
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When talking about correlation, do not write that the two points cause on another, its not true! Describing data: graphs, simple measures one variable, the average , the relationship between the individual values and the average ex. your result vs the class average, simple measures two variables. Correlations, calculating the value or graphing the data. Deciding if two things are related and how strongly they are related. Probability and distributions: simple probability, sampling distributions. Any collections of numerical data: vital statistics birth rates, death rates. This correlation is seen when you look at neighborhood change, just because they correlate that doesn"t mean poverty causes crime it may be the government causing the criminal rate. Methodology for collecting, presenting and analyzing data: census is a process for collecting data, allowing policy makers to present and analyze the data, summarize findings, theory validation, forecast allows us to project the future.
