Chapter 2
Statistics Review
Always Take a Random and Representative Sample
Statistics Is Not an Exact Science
Understand a Z Score
Understand the Central Limit Theorem
Understand One-Sample Hypothesis Testing and p-Values
Many Approaches/Techniques Are Correct, and a Few Are Wrong
Regardless of the academic field of study—business, psychology, or sociology—the first applied statistics course introduces the statistical foundation topics of descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions (discrete and continuous), sampling distribution of the mean, confidence intervals, one-sample hypothesis testing, and perhaps two-sample hypothesis ...
