STAT 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Descriptive Statistics, Statistical Inference
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I sleep seven hours per night, on average. Cam newton set nfl rookie records for passing yards in a game, yards in a season, yards in back to back games, and touchdowns in a season. 48% of likely voter intend to vote for the incumbent, with a margin of error of +/- 3%. Students who attend class regularly tend to get higher grades than those who do not. I consider this true, though in individual cases, it can be false. The next group of slides will cover commonly used terminology found in the discipline of statistics. Most of these terms are best understood in the context of a research study. For the purpose of illustration, we will suppose that a study is being done to estimate the average height of all adult females living in the u. s. Variables items (usually represented by letters or symbols) of interest which can take on different values.
