PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: English Alphabet, Count Data, Categorical Variable

• School: Ohio University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: Susan Tice- Alicke

Document Summary

Statistics - refers to procedures used for analyzing and interpreting data. Descriptive statistics procedures for organizing and summarizing data. Inferential statistics procedures for making a judgement about the characteristics of the population based on the characteristics of the sample. Population whole group, whole set, all numbers (unknown group) Sample subset of the population (known group) Sample is needed because population is usually too large to access as a whole. Representative sample sample that accurately reflects the characteristics of the population. Random sample every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected into the sample.