Chapter One -
Introduction
Chapter Objective
After studying the text and working the problems in this chapter,
you should be able to:
- Distinguish between descriptive and inferential statisics
- Define the words population, sample, parameter, statisitc,
and variable as these terms are used in statisics
- Distinguish between quantitative and qualitative
variables
- Identify the lower and upper limits of a quantitative
measurement
- Identify four scales of measurement and give examples of
each
- Distinguish between statictics and experimental design
- Define some experimental-design terms - independent
variable, dependent variable, and extraneous variable -
identify these variables when you are given a description of
an experiment
- Describe the relationship of statistics to episemology
- Identify a few events in the history of statics
Chapter Outline
- What Do You Mean, "Statistics"?
- What's in It for Me?
- Some Terminology
- Populations and Samples
- Parameters and Statistics
- Quantitative Variables
- Qualitative Variables
- Problems and Answers
- Scales of Measurement
- Statistics and Experimental Design
- Statistics and Philosophy
- Statistics: Then and Now
- How to Use This Book
- Objectives
- Clues to the Future
- Computers, Calculators, and Statistics
- Error Detection
- Figure and Table Refernces
- Problems and Answers
- Transition Pages
- Glossaries
- Arithmetic and Algebra Review
- Concluding Thoughts
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