1.38 What is statistics? On a final exam that one of us recently gave, students were asked,...
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1.38 What is statistics? On a final exam that one of us recently gave, students were asked, “How would you define ‘statistics’
to someone who has never taken a statistics course?”
One student wrote, “You want to know the answer to some question. There’s no answer in the back of a book.
You collect some data. Statistics is the body of procedures that helps you analyze the data to figure out the answer and how sure you can be about it.” Pick a question that interests you and explain how you might be able to use statistics to investigate the answer.
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Statistics The Art And Science Of Learning From Data
ISBN: 9781292164878
4th Global Edition
Authors: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
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