Data Analysis and Statistical Inference

• Data Analysis and Statistical Inference
• Empirical CDF
• Interquartile Range
• Measures of Central Tendency
• Measures of Dispersion and Symmetry
• Pearson Correlation Coefficient
• Sampling
  • Bias
  • Characteristics of Data
  • Sampling Methods
• Statistical Modeling

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• The bad:
  • Inductive, rather than deductive
  • Inevitability of error
  • Formulas appearing from nowhere
• The good:
  • Useful
  • Tell you how to conduct/evaluate experiments

todo Organize

Data Types

• Categorical
  • Ordinal (a subtype)
  • Implied order???
• Numerical
  • Discrete
  • Continuous

Collecting Data

• "Hard"
• More of an art than science
• The goal: to ensure your data is representative of the population