MTH 19: Basic Statistics Daily Log

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Wednesday, May 19:
Announcements:
    · Quiz next week
    · HW: Ch. 1.1: 1, 2
    · HW: Ch. 2.2: 1, 13a
    · HW: Ch. 2 Review: 2, 3, 8, 9
Take attendance & learn names
Go over and handout syllabus
Go over teaching style
Assess/review math skills
Ch. 1: Statisitics--dealing with data
    · read chapter...mostly self-explanatory
    · individuals members of a study
    · variable measured characteristic of individual
    · population data set of variable data for everyone individual in the study
    · sample data subset of variable data
    · descriptive statistics organizing, picturing, summarizing information
    · inferential statistics using information to draw conclusions from a sample
    · random sample every member of population has equal chance of being included and every n-sample has equal chance of being selected
    · Section 1.3 appropriate for class projects
Ch. 2: Organizing Data
    · should be able to make and read bar, circle, time plots
    · histograms
    · Example w/ grades
    · classes
    · symmetrical, uniform, skewed, bimodal

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