Chapter 1: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Overview
Many people have a misunderstanding of what statistics entails. The trouble stems from the fact that the word “statistics” has several different meanings. One meaning relates to numbers such as batting averages and political polls. When I tell people that I’m a statistician, they assume that I’m good with numbers. Actually, without a computer I would be lost.
The other meaning, the topic of this book, is to describe collections of numbers such as test scores and to describe properties of these numbers. This subset of statistics is known as descriptive statistics. Another subset of statistics, inferential ...
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