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1.13.25 Section1.1Overview ofstatistics
Jaffa
ofinformationcomingfromobservationscountsmeasurements
nsists responses

Statistics the ofcollectingorganizinganalyzingandinterpretingdatatomakedecisions
science

Population the
ofalloutcomesresponsesmeasurementsorcountsthatareofinterest
collection

Parameter numericaldescriptionof population
a a characteristic

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that
meant
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ExAverageageoa
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spent dayengagedinleisureand
per
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Statistics
anumericaldescriptionofasamplecharacteristic
Averagemean x̅
ExAverageageofpeoplefromasampleofthreestates

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miloyeesintheu.se
askedifthey
were jobswerestressfulOfthe
there
t hought 834respondents517 the
yesIdentifythepopulationand
said
sub's
sampleDescribe dataset e responses
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Branches statistics
of
statistics involves
Descriptive theorganizationsummerizationanddisplayofdata
egtableschartsaverages
nferential
statisticsinvolves
using datatodrawconclusionsaboutapopulation
s ample



117125 Section 1.2DataClassification
dataobservationaldata
Qualitative


amni.it
iiiiii i i
of data
intervallevel measure quantitative

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level
Ordinal ofmeasurement canbequalitativeorquantitativedata
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differences
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data
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canbeordered

ummary ofFourLevelsofMeasurement
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