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Introduction to Statistics
Introduction to Statistics
INTRODUCTION
TO STATISTICS
Outline of topics
IMPORTANCE OF STATISTICS
GATHERING OF DATA
KARL PEARSON
- the branch of
Mathematics that deals
with collecting, organizing,
presenting, analyzing and
STATISTICS interpreting data collected
in a systematic manner
with a definite purpose
IMPORTANCE Education
OF STATISTICS Business
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frequently used to describe the
scores of the students
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Business
Business owners can provide
better product at reasonable costs
by statistical quality control
techniques
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the data resulting from experiments must
be collected and analyzed. Contagious
diseases are controlled through analysis
designed to anticipate
epidemics/pandemics
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many kinds of statistical data are
collected all the time. An example of this
is conducting a survey to identify the
qualified families for 4Ps (Pantawid
Pamilyang Pilipino Program).
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POPULATION
VS
SAMPLE
Height
QUANTITATIVE
DATA No. of siblings
Number of students
consist of numbers
representing counts or
measurements
QUANTITATIVE Discrete
DATA Result from either a finite number
of possible values or countable
number of values
Discrete
No. of students in a class
Vs No. of siblings
Continuous
QUANTITATIVE Continuous
DATA Result from infinitely many
possible values that can be
associated with points or
continuous scale.
Discrete
Height
Vs
Weight
Continuous Temperature
Gender
Religion
QUALITATIVE
DATA Marital Status
Eye Color
can be separated into
d i ff e r e n t c a t e g o r i e s t h a t a r e
distinguished by some
nonnumeric characteristics
EXAMPLES
QUANTITATIVE OR QUALITATIVE
Ages of Principals
Quantitative - Continuous
Quantitative - Discrete
Qualitative
Qualitative
Quantitative - Continuous
QUANTITATIVE OR QUALITATIVE
CLASSIFY THE GIVEN VARIABLE AS QUANTITATIVE OR
QUALITATIVE. IF QUANTITATIVE, CLASSIFY THIS AS DISCRETE OR
CONTINUOUS
1) QUALITATIVE
Opinion on a political issue
2) NumberDATA
of hospitals that have nuclear center
3) Length of Basketball Court
4) Ranks of personnel in a military
5) Cellphone numbers
RATIO
Gender
NOMINAL
LEVEL OF Religion
MEASUREMENT
Race
MEASUREMENT
Size of clothes
(small, medium, large)
classifies data into categories that
can be ranked or ordered, but the
interval between measurements is
not meaningful.
INTERVAL
Temperature
LEVEL OF
MEASUREMENT IQ Test
LEVEL OF MEASUREMENTS
Temperature in San
Isidro
Interval
Nominal
LEVELS OF MEASUREMENTS
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QUALITATIVE
GIVE ATDATA
LEAST 3 USES OF STATISTICS