GEOG 3MB3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Statistical Inference, Statistic, Gini Coefficient
3 Nov 2016
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I. e. distance from shore of all pirate attacks in a region during a 3 month period (numbers are properties) I. e. average distance from shore of all pirate attacks. I. e. distance from a shore of a sample of pirate attacks in a region during a 3 month period. E a r t h s c ie n c e 3 m b 3 : s t a t is t ic a l a n a ly s is. Lecture 1 types of things, types of data. An attribute of characteristic of a thing; can be numbers (i. e. cost), weight, length, porosity, texture, measure of health status. A complete group of things with one of more descriptive properties. Use it informally, but the meaning is philosophically complex. Some number that describes a property of a population; usually a single number. A set of data selected from a population using some specified set of rules. Sample is a subset of a population.
