Statistics & Probability
Statistics & Probability
Statistics & Probability
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How old is your teacher? How old are the people residing in our town?
How many days are there in December? Do dogs eat more than cats?
What is the weight of my smallest classmate? Does it rain more in our country than in Thailand?
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STATISTICS
The scientific body of knowledge that deals with the
collection, organization or presentation, analysis and interpretation
of data.
main use is in decision-making.
BASIC STEPS IN RESEARCH:
1. Collection
2. Organization/presentation
3. Analysis
4. Interpretation of data
STATISTICS
enables us to:
characterize persons, objects, situations, and phenomena;
Explain relationships among variables;
Formulate objective assessments and comparisons; and more
importantly
Make evidence-based decisions and predictions.
STATISTICAL PROCESS IN SOLVING A PROBLEM
Planning or designing the collection of data to answer statistical questions
Collecting data as required in the plan
Verifying the quality of the data
Summarizing the information
Examining the summary for decision-making
HISTORY OF STATISCS
DESCRIPTIVE INFERENTIAL
Making generalizations for a bigger
Summary of calculations, graphical and group of observations based on
tabular displays and describing information gathered from a small group
important features of a set of data. of observation
POPULATION
Use statistics to
summarize features
Use parameters to
summarize features
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RUBBER;
Types of Data
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