STAT 1450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pie Chart, Exploratory Data Analysis, Bar Chart
9 Oct 2018
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Guided notes associated with the lecture videos for sections 1. 1 & 1. 2. By becoming statistically literate, you will learn common statistical terms and their uses. Sound statistical literacy, thinking, and reasoning will help you to challenge and resolve the veracity of certain claims. In this course you will learn that doing statistics is a process of questioning whether the methods we use are appropriate (using graphical displays and checking conditions, doing any necessary calculations (mechanics), and communicating your results in context). The authors define it as the science of data. I"d also like to include the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data. Data are numbers with a context, and we must understand this context. In this chapter we"ll look at a few practical situations. Can we use graphs of data to estimate: The type of shoe that is most common in someone"s closet? (or in our classroom)
