PSYC 100g Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bias Of An Estimator, Standard Deviation, Normal Distribution
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Chapter 1 (controlled experiments), chapter 2 (observational studies) experiment. Chapter 4 (the average and standard deviation) Chapter 5 (the normal approximation for data) Think critically about data or information presented in news, articles, papers. To be able to think of possible confounding variables, and maybe hidden variables, in an. Read a table of data and understand the advantages and disadvantages in looking at the percent and the numbers. Identify the type of study (observational, controlled) To be able to interpret the information a histogram is representing. To be able to make a histogram from data given. To be able to understand how a histogram changes when a bin/class interval is changed. Given a set of data, accurately compute the average, median, and standard deviation. Identify graphically the location of the average and median on a histogram. Interpret how the average and median changes with respect to changes in a histogram. Understand what the sd means in relation to the average.
