Throughout your college career, statistical terms will play an increasingly important role. Understanding the terms and processes of statistics are necessary for you to understand your own research and the research of other scholars.
You will find some of the statistical terms and concepts familiar because they are used in everyday life. For example, the words "mean" or "average" are probably terms that you can readily grasp and explain.
By the time you finish the Introduction to Statistics you will be able to:
- define a variety of basic statistical terms and concepts
- solve fundamental statistical problems
- use your understanding of statistical fundamentals to interpret data
Basic statistics, as used in this module, are very straightforward. Read about mean, median, mode, significant differences, and correlations and complete the activities.
Now that you have completed this module on basic statistics, look in the local or college newspaper for examples of statistics. What types of statistics do you find? How are statistics used in the reports you find?
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