01 - What is Statistics all about?

Why should we study Statistics?

Practice

Read Chapter 2, Chapter 2 # 7, 10, 11

Vocabulary

Statistic, Data, Context, Quantitative Variable, Categorical Variable, Population of Interest

Study Questions

  1. Why is it important to ask who, what, when, why, where, and how of any given set of data?
  2. Who collects data or gathers your information these days and for what purpose?
  3. It is hard to go a day without hearing about privacy these days. Why is data privacy important?

Resources

  1. Slide Deck: 01_What_is_statistics_all_about.pdf