Introduction to Statistics and Probability

"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument." -- Marilyn vos Savant


Topics

Introduction

Basic Set Theory

Possibilities

Pascal's Triangle

Probabilities

Describing Nominal and Ordinal Data

(Chapter 2 of our textbook.)

Describing Interval and Ratio Data

(Chapters 3 & 4 of our textbook.)

Finding Differences with Nominal Data:
Chi-Square Test of Fit

(Chapters 7 of our textbook.)

Finding Differences with Nominal Data:
Chi-Square Test of Independence

(Chapters 8 of our textbook.)

Finding Differences with Interval and Ratio Data:
One Sample z and t Tests

(Chapters 9 of our textbook.)

Fat Tails

Statistical Fallacies

Probability Distributions

Interpretations of Probability

(Not covered Summer 2017.)

Statistics: Characteristics of a Distribution

(Not covered Summer 2017.)

Sampling

(Not covered Summer 2017.)

Detecting Patterns: Correlation

(Not covered Summer 2017.)

Other Material