Education 200C: Statistics

Course Objectives• You will be prepared for more advanced

courses in multiple regression and analysis of variance.

• You will learn and appreciate the sensation of quantification.

• You will gain new understanding of what someone means when they say “You never step into the same river twice.”

• You will step into the river over and over and come to love the concept of “error.”

• You will fall in love with statistics!

Course Objectives• You will be prepared for more advanced

courses in multiple regression and analysis of variance.

• You will learn and appreciate the sensation of quantification.

• You will gain new understanding of what someone means when they say “You never step into the same river twice.”

• You will step into the river over and over and come to love the concept of “error.”

• You will fall in love with statistics!

Course Objectives• You will be prepared for more advanced

courses in multiple regression and analysis of variance.

• You will learn and appreciate the sensation of quantification.

• You will gain new understanding of what someone means when they say “You never step into the same river twice.”

• You will step into the river over and over and come to love the concept of “error.”

• You will fall in love with statistics!

Course Objectives• You will be prepared for more advanced

courses in multiple regression and analysis of variance.

• You will learn and appreciate the sensation of quantification.

• You will gain new understanding of what someone means when they say “You never step into the same river twice.”

• You will step into the river over and over and come to love the concept of “error.”

• You will fall in love with statistics!

Course Objectives• You will be prepared for more advanced

courses in multiple regression and analysis of variance.

• You will learn and appreciate the sensation of quantification.

• You will gain new understanding of what someone means when they say “You never step into the same river twice.”

• You will step into the river over and over and come to love the concept of “error.”

• You will fall in love with statistics!

Hopefully not

like this!

One kind of error

How unusual is that?

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September 20, 2010

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September 20, 2010

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September 20, 2010

Population

The goal is to describe this as accurately as possible.

Population

Sample

You take a sample.You describe the sample.How good is the sample?

Population

Sample

You take a sample.You describe the sample.How good is the sample?

Population

Sample

You take a sample.You describe the sample.How good is the sample?

Syllabus

• Google “Kenji Hakuta”

• Go to “courses”

• Go to Education 200C