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STAT 3743 Daily Outline

STAT 3743 Daily Outline

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2010-08-23 Mon

Beginnings

What are STATISTICS?

Definition

Experiments
deterministic vs. random
Sample space
set of all possible outcomes

Examples:

Random variables

Example

  1. Do a random experiment
  2. Make (relative) frequency table
  3. Make (relative) frequency histogram

Intuitive definition of probability

Probability mass functions (PMFs)

Mean, standard deviation of a random variable

Definition

Remarks

  • mean is measure of center
  • mean can be anything
  • mean is "first moment about origin"

Example: calculate PMF, mean, variance

Author: G. Jay Kerns <gkerns@ysu.edu>

Date: 2010-10-08 15:13:10 EDT

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