PSYC 2021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Statistical Inference, Statistical Parameter, Statistic
20 Jan 2017
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Mainly consisting of facts and figures such as. To organize and summarize the information so that the researchers can see what happened in the research study and can communicate the results to others. Helps researchers answer questions that initiated the research by determining exactly what general conclusions are justified based on the specific results that were obtained. The term statistics refers to a set of mathematical procedures for organizing, summarizing, and interpreting information. A researcher may be interested in the effects of divorce on the self- esteem of preteen children. A researcher may want to examine the amount of time spent in the bathroom for both men and women. Interest- group of men compared to group of women. An entire group that a researcher wishes to study is called a population. A population is the set of all the individuals of interest in a study. Populations can vary in size from extremely large to very small.
