Chapter 14 Statistical analysis

The statistics approach

Measures of centreal tendency and dispersion

r

On average and descrpiptive statistics meaning?

Central tendency

Mean

Mode

Median

Dispersion

Range

Variance

Standard deviation

Probabilistic statements

Descriptive

Comparative

Relational

The basis of probabilistic statements:the normal distribution

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Theory: Theoretical idea of drawing repeated samples of the same size from the same population.The values found from the sample will fall within a certain range either side of the true population value--hence the idea of confidence intervals.The theory related to the bell-shaped normal distribution which would result if repeated samples were drawn and the values of a statistic plotted.

Normal curve

Probabilistic statement formats