MATH 1131- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 61 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Mathematics and Statistics
• Course: MATH 1131
• Professor: Georges Monette

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Math 1131 lecture 1 notes- an introduction to statistics and statistical inference. Two common methods for data collection, observational sampling and experimentation, are also introduced. 100,000 people: the authors concluded that second-hand smoke affects the cardiovascular system nearly as much as active smoking, summary statistics: If all 312 million americans are equally likely to be killed by a vending machine, then the probability that a randomly selected individual will be crushed by a vending machine during a particular year is 0. 00000004167 = Interpretation of graphs and evaluation of statistical arguments are no longer reserved for academics and researchers. Populations, samples, probability, and statistics: there are two very general applications of statistics: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, descriptive statistics involve summarizing and organizing the given information, graphically and/or numerically, the focus of this text is statistical inference. The procedures of inferential statistics allow us to use the given data to draw conclusions and assess risk.