STAT 100 Chapter 1: Chapter 1.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Statistics
• Course: STAT 100
• Professor: Derek Bingham

Document Summary

Can take different values for different individuals: not all are numerical, some are categorical and simply place individual into one of several groups or categories, bad judgement on choosing variables (cid:224) data that costs lots of time and money but don"t shed light on the world, response variable that measures an outcome or result of a study, observational study observes individuals and measures variables of interest but does not intervene in order to influence the responses, purpose is to describe some group or situation.