A First Course in Statistics, 12th Edition

1 Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking

Contents

1. 1.1 The Science of Statistics

2. 1.2 Types of Statistical Applications

3. 1.3 Fundamental Elements of Statistics

4. 1.4 Types of Data

5. 1.5 Collecting Data: Sampling and Related Issues

6. 1.6 The Role of Statistics in Critical Thinking and Ethics

Where We’re Going

• Introduce the field of statistics (1.1)

• Demonstrate how statistics applies to real-world problems (1.2)

• Introduce the language of statistics and the key elements to any statistical problem (1.3)

• Differentiate between population and sample data (1.3)

• Differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics (1.3)

• Identify the different ...