Making a Start on a New Series
I started Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear today. Like most introductory lectures, there wasn’t anything too specific to remember. So far I’ve learnt that the two main purposes of statistics are to (1) describe or summarise a complete set of data to give it meaning and (2) to infer from a sample of a group the characteristics of the complete group. I’ve summarised these two main concepts using Photoshop below. Put simply, statistics involves giving meaning to otherwise meaningless data.
I am going to go back to the ‘Course Guidebook’ now and ‘revise’. I say ‘revise’ because there isn’t too much information to process (yet), but in later lectures it will be beneficial. Also, I’ll use my old textbook Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, Second Edition, whenever it’s helpful to do so. I was going to simultaneously do the Online Video Course ‘Against All Odds: Inside Statistics‘ but it appears that copyright restrictions prevent me viewing this material here in Australia.
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