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A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio in the Cloud
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A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio in the Cloud

by Ron Cody
May 2021
Beginner content levelBeginner
306 pages
6h 20m
English
SAS Institute
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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 am a statistician, they assume that I am 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 statistics, takes up a major portion of this book. One of the goals of inferential statistics ...

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ISBN: 9781954844476