Transcription of Crash Course on Basic Statistics
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Crash Course on Basic StatisticsMarina Wahl, of New York at Stony BrookNovember 6, 20132 Contents1 Basic Basic Definitions .. Probability of Events .. Bayes Theorem ..62 Basic Types of data .. Errors .. Reliability .. Validity .. Probability Distributions .. Population and Samples .. Bias .. Questions on Samples .. Central Tendency ..93 The Normal Distribution114 The Binomial Distribution135 Confidence Intervals156 Hypothesis Testing177 The t-Test198 Regression239 Logistic Regression2510 Other Topics2711 Some Related Questions2934 CONTENTSC hapter 1 Basic Basic DefinitionsTrials?Probability is concerned with the outcome also calledexperimentsorobserva-tions(multipl e trials).
In a small sample of data (less than 25 or so), the sample median tends to do a poor job of estimating the population median.? For task-time data the geometric mean tends to provide a better estimate of the pop-ulation’s middle value than the sample median. Mode? The most frequently occurring value.? Is useful in describing ordinal or ...
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