Welcome to Statistical Reasoning I: Statistical Foundations STA 200

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Welcome to Statistical Reasoning IStatistical
FoundationsSTA 200

• Instructor
• Mike Baker

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Syllabus

• Class list
• Contact information
• Text
• Course overview
• Descriptive statistics
• concepts
• basic calculations
• Calculator

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Syllabus

• Tentative course schedule
• Exams Grading
• 4 exams x 20 80
• Homework 20
• Final Grade 100
• Homework
• answers in back of book
• show all intermediate steps
• state concepts in your own words

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Syllabus

• Attendance
• Makeup exams
• Students with disabilities
• Getting help

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• There are three kinds of lies
• lies, damned lies,
• and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli
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Why Statistics?

• Tools to critically evaluate information
• Accounting for variation
• differences similarities
• Psychology goals
• describe, explain, predict, control
• Statistics AID decision-making
• Downloading outlines

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