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Basic Concepts of Statistics & Probability
Statistics
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Mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It produces quantities calculated from a random sample taken from a population of interest
Probability
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Probability is the measure of how likely an event will occur or has occurred. An event is one or more outcomes of an experiment .An outcome is the result of a single trial of an experiment The probability of event A is P(A) ; 0 P(A) 1
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Probability represents uncertainty while statistics describe the sample data or imply information from the sample data
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Population
The entire set of potential observations (items, people, etc) about whose properties we would like to learn
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Sample
The set of observational units (items, people, etc) whose properties our study is to observe. When we select a sample by scientific randomization, we are more easily able to generalize our conclusions to the population of interest. For a given characteristic, the collection of measurements that are actually observed
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For practical reasons sample is used to represent the population. Data is collected for the sample members in an observational or experimental setting. This data can then be subjected to statistical analysis.
When we measure something in a population it is called a parameter. When we measure something in a sample it is called a statistic
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Descriptive Statistics
Summarize the population data by describing what was observed in the sample numerically or graphically. Numerical descriptors include mean and standard deviation for continuous data types , while frequency and percentage are more useful in terms of describing categorical data .
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Inferential Statistics
Uses patterns in the sample data to draw inferences about the population. These inferences may take the form of: answering yes/no questions about the data (hypothesis testing) estimating numerical characteristics of the data (estimation), describing associations within the data (correlation), modeling relationships within the data (regression), extrapolation, interpolation, or other modeling techniques like ANOVA, time series, and data mining.
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Location The location is the expected value of the output being measured. For a stable process, this is the value around which the process has stabilized.
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Spread The spread is the expected amount of variation associated with the output. This tells us the range of possible values that we would expect to see.
Shape
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The shape shows how the variation is distributed about the location. This tells us if our variation is symmetric about the mean or if it is skewed.
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Parameter Location (central tendency) Spread
Numerical Mean Median Mode Standard Deviation variance range skewness kurtosis
Graphical scatter plot boxplot histogram boxplot histogram Box plot histogram probability plot
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Shape
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Describing Variation
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Variation in output comes from several sources such as materials, machines, methods, measurements, environment and people
Variation can be measured and described numerically or graphically Variation means the data is distributed
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Numerical Measures of Central Tendency
Knowing where the center of a distribution is tells us a lot about a distribution. Mean, the mean, or average score, is the arithmetic center of the distribution
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Median, The median is the physical center of the distribution. It is the value in the middle when the values of the distribution are arranged sequentially. Mode The mode is the most frequent value in the distribution. It is simply the value that appears most often
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Numerical Measures of Dispersion
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Measures of dispersion or variability will give us information about the spread of the scores in our distribution
Range The range is the difference between the high and low score in a distribution. Simply subtract the two numbers to find the range
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Standard Deviation and Variance - both measure how far on average scores deviate or differ from the mean. The standard deviation is the average deviation about the mean
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Graphical Display of Central Tendency
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Box Plot
A graphical display that provides important quantitative information about a data set. Some of this information is location or central tendency; Spread or variability; Departure from symmetry; and Identification of outliers
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Histogram
A graphical display of a grouped frequency distribution as a way to abbreviate the values we are dealing with in a distribution.
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