Outline

rwp — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:47:43 +0000

Today’s outline, anyway.

Introduction
1. Data
2. Probability
3. Statistics
4. Software
Discussion
1. Collecting and Describing Data
  1. Data Types, Sampling, Bias, and Data Collection
  2. Raw Data, Clean Data, and Aggregated Data
  3. Data Distributions
  4. Descriptive Statistics: Central Tendency, Variance, Kurtosis, and Skewness
2. Beyond Description
  1. Sample and Population
  2. Correlation
  3. Inferential Statistics: Comparing Means
  4. Inferential Statistics: Expected Values and Goodness of Fit
  5. Regression
Conclusion
1. The Null Hypothesis and Research Design
2. Pitfalls
3. Teaching Statistics

Hello

rwp — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:15:09 +0000

I saw no reason to set this stats rewrite up on my own blog, so I’m doing it here. I’m not sure that a blog is the best way to do it, but as long as it doesn’t get in the way, fine.

Oh damn. I hate this *&$@% visual editor. How stupid do you have to be to be mystified by HTML?

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Outline

Hello