STA215H5 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Standard Deviation, Variance, Normal Distribution
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Collecting, analyzing, interpreting and presenting (visualization) of data. Finding patterns and relationships within to draw conclusions. Bigger picture: take a sample and infer something about a larger population. Facebook is a social networking website where users can share pictures, comments, links to news/websites, update friends/family on their whereabouts, play games and chat live. This is because facebook is collecting data based on your profile through tools like facebook analytics and measurement tools. To facebook, your data is a gold mine!! Your data can be sold to marketing companies. Example: facebook can sell your data to companies with their primary consumers being university students and so your profile may be included. Data; interest. may, in fact, be infinitely large inanimate objects we conduct experiments on. Subjects or participants are individuals on whom we experiment on. Whereas experimental units is typically reserved for animals, websites, and other. A population is the group of all items of interest.
