STT 201 Lecture 2: Chapter 2 (1:9:19) notes
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1834: statistical society of london was established. 1900: the golden age for modern statistics. K person published his work on goodness of t. Considered the top 20 discoveries of last century. 1925: fisher published statistical methods for research workers. Made probability and statistics a serious branch of mathematics. 1953: j. l doob published stochastic processes bringing study of probability to english. 1955: statistics was rst established at msu. Mathematical science of counting and measurement of data collection, analysis, and it"s interpretation. In the back of our minds there is a population of units. Object is to study characteristics of the population. From a small part of population (sampling) Extrapolates info to the entire population from the sample. Stats goes from small group to large rather than from a large group to small. The modern theory of probability enables us to quantify th emagnitude of error in inferential procedures. Inferential: (small group applied to large population) modern statistics.
