PSYB07H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Normal Distribution, Frequency Distribution, Unimodality
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Stats, chapter one: displaying the order in a group of numbers using tables and graphs. Use stat methods to help them make sense of numbers they collect when conducting research. Statistics: branch of math that focuses on the organization, analysis, and interpretation of a group of members. Descriptive statistics: procedures for summarizing a group of scores or otherwise making them more understandable. Inferential statistics: procedures for drawing conclusions based on scores collected in a research study but going beyond them. Two branches of stats methods: descriptive stats: use descriptive stats to summarize and describe group of numbers from study. Inferential stats: use inferential stats to draw conclusion and to make inferences that are based on numbers from research study but that go beyond numbers. Ex, allow to make inference about large group based on study in which smaller group of individuals took part. Variable is condition or characteristic that can have different values, it can vary.
