STAT 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Statistical Inference, Circulatory System, Webmd
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Chapter 1: introduction to statistic and statistical inference. Statistics are everywhere, in newspapers, magazines, the internet, the evening weather forecast, medical studies and even sport reports. They are used by professionals in many different disco[lines in a variety of settings to make decisions that directly affect our lives. The goal in this course is to use statistics to understand and make decisions about the data. Statistic is the science of collecting and interpreting data as well as drawing logical conclusions from available information to solve real-world problems. The science of learning from (or making sense out of) data. The theory and methods of extracting information from observational data for solving real-world problems. The art of telling a story with [numerical] data. (there is numerical and non-numerical data) It is very important to compared the between the topics and definitions. Descriptive statistic: describing the data using graphical and numerical methods used to describe, organize and summarize data( describe the data)
