1: Basic Ideas
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- 1.3: Displaying and Analyzing Data with Graphs
- 1.3.1: Introduction and Examples
- 1.3.2: Types of Data
- 1.3.3: Levels of Data
- 1.3.4: Graphs of Categorical Data
- 1.3.5: Graphs of Numeric Data
- 1.3.5.1: Stem and Leaf Plots
- 1.3.5.2: Dot Plots
- 1.3.5.3: Grouping Numeric Data
- 1.3.5.4: Histograms
- 1.3.5.5: Cumulative Frequency and Relative Frequency
- 1.3.5.6: Using Ogives to find Percentiles
- 1.4: Introduction to Statistics
- This first chapter begins by discussing what statistics are and why the study of statistics is important. Subsequent sections cover a variety of topics all basic to the study of statistics. One theme common to all of these sections is that they cover concepts and ideas important for other chapters in the book.
- 1.4.1: What are Statistics?
- 1.4.2: Importance of Statistics
- 1.4.3: Descriptive Statistics
- 1.4.4: Inferential Statistics
- 1.4.5: Sampling Demonstration
- 1.4.6: Variables
- 1.4.7: Percentiles
- 1.4.8: Levels of Measurement
- 1.4.9: Measurements
- 1.4.10: Distributions
- 1.4.11: Summation Notation
- 1.4.12: Linear Transformations
- 1.4.13: Logarithms
- 1.4.14: Statistical Literacy
- 1.4.E: Introduction to Statistics (Exercises)