STAT 246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Logistic Regression, Biostatistics
Document Summary
September 4, 2015: professor: shahedul khan, email: s. khan@usask. ca, course content covers textbook chapters 1-4, 7, 9, 11, 13-15, 17-24. Also covers logistic regression, however this is not covered in the textbook. No allowance for missed assignments: exams are multiple choice. Make-up tests will not be given: textbook companion site, http://bcs. whfreeman. com/psls3e/default. asp#t_917269___, login: steven. hall@usask. ca password: 8232108. Chapter 1: displaying data with graphs: what is statistics, statistics is the science of learning from data and of measuring, controlling and communicating uncertainty, data are numbers with a context. For example, the number 10. 5 carries no information. Individuals and variables: individuals are the objects described in a set of data. Individuals may be people, animals, plants or things. Examples: newborns, fields of corn, cells, freshmen: a variable is any property that characterizes an individual. It can take different values for different individuals. Examples: age, gender, blood pressure, blood type, flower colour: two types of variables, quantitative: some quantity assessed or measured for each individual.
