BIOS601 AGENDA: Monday September 28

Lecture: Descriptive Statistics

• Types of Variables
   
• Displaying Numerical Data
  • Tables
  • Graphs
     
• Summarizing Numerical Data
  • Location (Central Tendency)
  • Properties of Mean and Median
  • Spread (Dispersion)
     
• "Standard Deviation"
   
• Why the n-1 in the variance ?
   
• Comment on Usage of +/- SD
   
• "Table 1"
   
• Z-Scores
   
• Z (Gaussian) distribution
   

Lecture Notes

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