STAT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Likert Scale, Simple Random Sample, January 30
1 Feb 2017
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Methods of quantifying the chances, or likelihoods, associated with a desire outcome obtained from a set of possible outcomes of an experiment. A science that involves the extraction of information from numerical data obtained during an experiment or from a sample. A question to be answered or situation to be analyzed. Making inferences (statements) about the population based upon information in a sample. Determine the best group of people or things to go to that will help answer or analyze the situation in question. Determine which characteristics from this group will help answer your question or analyze the situation in question. The objects described by a set of data. Can take different values for different individuals. Statistics is the science of reasoning with data. Data is the collection of values of a set of characteristics for a set of individuals, collected for a particular study. Individual (object or subject or experimental unit): entity on which information is collected.
