Statistic In Kinesiology

1. What are some of your preconceived ideas about the field of statistics? Why you think most people don't like the term? 2. Why might the study of statistics be important to you as a student? What use will it have for you in your fields of study? 3. How professionals use statistics to make sense of data? 4. Why we need statistics to analyze data? Can't we simply see patterns in data tables? 5. What is the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics? 6. What are some things you can do as students to ensure your success in this course?

7. What you think is the best way to describe a set of scores in a distribution? 8. There are several different ways of computing the "average" for a set of scores. These are often defined as measures of central tendency. What are the three types of averages that can be used to describe a set of scores? 9. What is the formula for computing the mean? 10. What is the difference between the mean and the median? 11. When would the median be a better measure of central tendency?