MATH 1F92- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 78 pages long!)

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Statistics refers to the science of collecting and analyzing data to interpret and draw conclusions about a population. Statistics are able to use given information to find patterns amongst virtually any topic of. For instance, stock markets, average cost of tuition, causes for disease, political campaigns. Individual: a person or object that is a member of the population of interest. Imagine you are interested in finding the amount of money a brock university student spends in a month. Identify the population, sample and individual: population - brock students, sample - child and youth department c) Americans were asked in a home survey if they wanted donald trump to be president. Of the americans who answered, it was found that 55% of americans want him to be president. More so, 72% of people who answered from texas were in favor of donald trump being president: parameter - 55, statistic - 72%