Statistical Thinking and Data Treatment
Ľubica and Ján Krauskovi, Dominik Heger
Masaryk University hegerd(3chemi. muni. cz
STDT 01 Intro
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Statistical Thinking and Data Treatment
This course is an introduction to statistics.
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Statistical Thinking and Data Treatment
This course is an introduction to statistics.
What is statistics?
The science of drawing conclusions from data.
Statistical Thinking and Data Treatment
This course is an introduction to statistics.
What is statistics?
The science of drawing conclusions from data. The goal.
To be an informed user of numerical information.
Statistical Thinking and Data Treatment
We will
• Think logically about quantitative evidence.
• Translate real-world situations into mathematical questions.
• Learn few important statistical and probabilistic concepts.
• Draw inference from the numbers.
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Statistical Thinking and Data Treatment
We will
• Think logically about quantitative evidence.
• Translate real-world situations into mathematical questions.
• Learn few important statistical and probabilistic concepts.
• Draw inference from the numbers.
We will not learn (For that you need to call mathematician.)
• Statistical theory (statistics is mathematical discipline).
• Numerical analysis.
• Bestiary of techniques or named probability distributions.
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Statistical Thinking and Data Treatment
What the name means? Datum, data (f.)
Statistics is the science of drawing conclusions from data. Inference - drawing conclusions based on data from random samples. Probability - understanding and quantifying randomness. What should happen just by chance?
Descriptive Statistics - describing and summarizing data.
Thinking how to draw conclusions and how to treat (collect, order, analyze, summarize) data.
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Experimentalists Note
No statistical treatment can ever make up for well measured data!
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Experimentalists Note
No statistical treatment can ever make up for well measured data!
Dobře naměřená data nelze nahradit žádnou statistikou!
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Infromation sources
h tt ps: / / co u rses. edx. org/ co u rses/ Be r ke I eyX / St a t_2. lx/ http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/ stark/SticiGui/
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