Introduction to Statistics


Introduction to Statistics




0. INTRODUCTION: DEFINITION AND USES OF STATISTICS

PART I
  • LESSON 1.LOOKING AT DATA: DISTRIBUTIONS
    1. Displaying Distributions (excluding Time Plots)
    2. Describing Distributions
    3. The Normal Distributions (excluding Assessing Normality, Quantile and Normal Plots)
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  • LESSON 2. LOOKING AT DATA: RELATIONSHIPS
    1. Scatterplots
    2. Least Squares Regression
    3. Correlations
    4. Relations in Categorical Data
    5. The question of Causation
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  • LESSON 3. PRODUCING DATA
    1. First Steps
    2. Design of Experiments
    3. Sampling Design
    4. Toward Statistical Inference
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    PART II
  • LESSON 4. THE STUDY OF RANDOMNESS
    1. Probability Models
    2. Random Variables
    3. Mean and Variances of Random Variables
    4. Probability Laws
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  • LESSON 5. FROM PROBABILITY TO INFERENCE
    1. Counts and Proportions
    2. Sample Means
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    PART III
  • LESSON 6. INTRODUCTION TO INFERENCE
    1. Estimating with Confidence
    2. Tests of Significance
    3. Use and Abuse of Tests (excluding Power and Inference as Decision)
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  • LESSON 7. INFERENCE FOR DISTRIBUTIONS
    1. Inference for the Mean of a Population
    2. Comparing Two Means
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  • LESSON 8. INFERENCE FOR COUNT DATA
    1. Inference for a Single Proportion
    2. Comparing Two Proportions
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    PART IV
  • LESSON 9. INFERENCE FOR CONTINGENCY TABLES
    1. Two-way Tables
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  • LESSON 10. INFERENCE FOR REGRESSION
    1. Simple Linear Regresion
  • LESSON 11. ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
    1. One-Way Analysis of Variance
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