General Information Part One (approximately 70 - 80% weight) Overview: Covers Chapters 1 – 5 Part One will begin promptly at 2:10 and end at 3:25. Students arriving late will not be given additional time. If you have a diagnosed learning disability which requires extra time‚ you must make arrangements with me at least one week in advance so arrangements can be made for you to take the exam at the ARC. Consists of multiple-choice‚ true-false‚ short answer and short essay questions. There
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Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Origin of Statistics: The word Statistics seems to have been derived from Latin word ‘Status’‚ German word ‘Statistik’ or Italian word ‘Statista’. Each of these means “Political State’. In ancient time governments used to collect the information regarding the population & the property of the State. In India an efficient system of collecting official and administrative statistics existed even more than 2000 Years ago‚ in particular‚ during the period of Chandra Gupta
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Lecture Notes on Introductory Statistics‚ I (P.P. Leung) Lecture notes are based on the following textbook: N.A. Weiss (2012)‚ Introductory Statistics‚ 9th edition‚ Pearson. Chapter 1 The Nature of Statistics 統計本質 §1.1 Two kinds of Statistics §1.4 Other Sampling Designs (其他抽樣方法) Chapter 1 The Nature of Statistics 統計本質 What is Statistics? 何謂統計? From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopaedia: Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection‚ analysis‚ interpretation
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vital statistics of populations studied probability through games of chance‚ gambling | 18th Century | Laplace‚ Gauss | normal curve‚ regression through study of astronomy | 19th Century | Quetelet Galton | astronomer who first applied statistical analyses to human biologystudied genetic variation in humans(used regression and correlation) | 20th Century (early) | PearsonGossett (Student) Fisher | studied natural selection using correlation‚ formed first academic department of statistics‚ Biometrika
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from your instructor‚ are in the "Details" section below. Date Taken: 6/11/2012 Time Spent: 01 min ‚ 13 secs Points Received: 21 / 60 (35%) Question Type: # Of Questions: # Correct: Multiple Choice 13 9 Short 5 N/A Grade Details Page: 1 2 1. Question : (TCO 11) Define point estimate. Student Answer: Approximation of a single quantity or a single numerical value‚ instead of that of a whole range of values. Instructor Explanation: A point estimate occurs when a single value‚
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Mathematics COURSE INFORMATION SHEET |Course Code |MTHS002 | |Course Title |Descriptive and Inferential Statistics | |Prerequisite |MTHS001 (College Algebra) | |Credit/No. of Units |3 units
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cocci cells. D. Were there observable differences between your fresh yogurt slide and the prepared yogurt slide? If so‚ describe them. Only perhaps that there was far more Cocci cells then Bacillus E. Describe the four main bacterial shapes 1. Cocci - Spherical or oval bacteria having one of several distinct arrangements based on their planes of division 2. Bacillus - Rod shaped bacteria. Bacilli all divide in one plane producing a bacillus‚ streptobacillus‚ or coccobacillus arrangement
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Statistics is the study of the collection‚ organization‚ analysis‚ interpretation and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of data including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. Descriptive statistics is the discipline of quantitatively describing the main features of a collection of information‚ or the quantitative description itself. Descriptive statistics are distinguished from inferential statistics (or inductive statistics)‚ in that
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Chapter 2 Charts and Graphs Statistics is the science of data. A first step in the study of statistics is the examination of data. Chapters 2 and 3 present several techniques for reducing data so that it is more manageable. In addition‚ graphic displays are essential to understand and interpret complex sets of data in order to be able to make business decisions easier. Chapter 2 discusses and displays several graphical tools including the histogram‚ frequency polygon‚ ogive‚ dot plot‚ bar
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Week Two Assignment BUS308: Statistics for Managers Tiffany Aldridge January 9‚ 2012 Week Two Assignment Chapter 4: 4.4‚ 4.20 4.4 Suppose that a couple will have three children. Letting B denote a boy and G denote a girl: a. Draw a tree diagram depicting the sample space outcomes for this experiment b. List the sample space outcomes that correspond to each of the following events: 1) All three children will have the same gender. BBB‚ GGG 2) Exactly two of the three
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