PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operational Definition, Dependent And Independent Variables, Statistical Inference
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Math skills assessment: statistics requires basic math skills, appendix a math skills assessment helps you determine if you need a skills. Inadequate basic math skills puts you at risk in this course review: appendix a math skills review provides a quick refresher course on those, the final math skills assessment identifies your basic math skills competence. 1. 1 statistics, science and observations areas. (cid:498)statistics(cid:499) means (cid:498)statistical procedures . Uses of statistics: organize and summarize information, determine exactly what conclusions are justified based on the results that were obtained. Goals of statistical procedures: accurate and meaningful interpretation, provide standardized evaluation procedures. The set of all the individuals of interest in a particular study. Vary in size; often quite large: sample. A set of individuals selected from a population. Usually intended to represent the population in a research study. Characteristic or condition that changes or has different values for different individuals: data (plural) Measurements or observations of a variable: data set.
