statistical
(adjective)
of or pertaining to statistics
Examples of statistical in the following topics:
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References
- ., & the Task Force on Statistical Inference, APA Board of Scientific Affairs. (1999).
- Statistical methods in psychology journals: Guidelines and explanations.
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Descriptive or Inferential Statistics?
- Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics are both important components of statistics when learning about a population.
- This generally means that descriptive statistics, unlike inferential statistics, are not developed on the basis of probability theory.
- Even when a data analysis draws its main conclusions using inferential statistics, descriptive statistics are generally also presented.
- The conclusion of a statistical inference is a statistical proposition.
- Some common forms of statistical proposition are:
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Summary of Formulas
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Counting
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Statistical Literacy
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References
- F. (1960) Directional statistical decisions.
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Understanding Statistics
- Using statistics in public speaking can be a powerful tool.
- Before a set of statistics can be used, however, it must be made understandable by people who are not familiar with statistics.
- Use statistics that are easily understood.
- Some common uses of statistics in a speech format may include:
- This will likely use more complicated statistics.
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Introduction
- You are probably asking yourself the question, "When and where will I use statistics?".
- If you read any newspaper or watch television, or use the Internet, you will see statistical information.
- There are statistics about crime, sports, education, politics, and real estate.
- Included in this chapter are the basic ideas and words of probability and statistics.
- You will soon understand that statistics and probability work together.
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Communicating Statistics
- Visual tools can be an effective way of incorporating statistics in your persuasive speech.
- Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.
- Your audience is much more likely to believe you if you incorporate statistics.
- Statistics can be difficult to understand on their own, though.
- As a result, consider using visual tools such as tables, graphs, and maps to make statistics more understandable for your audience.
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Applications of Statistics
- Statistics also provides tools for prediction and forecasting.
- This is called descriptive statistics .
- Statistical models can also be used to draw statistical inferences about the process or population under study—a practice called inferential statistics.
- Probability is used in "mathematical statistics" (alternatively, "statistical theory") to study the sampling distributions of sample statistics and, more generally, the properties of statistical procedures.
- In descriptive statistics, summary statistics are used to summarize a set of observations, in order to communicate the largest amount as simply as possible.