Day 16: STA205 - Introduction to Statistical Methods

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• Announcements:
  • Reminder: please hide your rectangles.

  • You have a quiz at the end of the hour, over packet 7.

• Today:

  • We continue talking about summarizing quantitative data.

    In particular, we're talking about the distribution of a quantitative variable, i.e. the height of an NKU student.

    

    As an illustrative example, I'll be using statcrunch on your class height data.

  • Packet 7: Summarizing Quantitative Data

• Links:
  • The Standard Normal Table of probabilities.

  • Computing chi-squares in Statcrunch is carried out using the

    Stat -> Tables -> Contingency ->

    (then either data or summary, depending on what you have)

  • Here's a Mathematica demo about Chi-Squares.