Understanding statistics is essential to understand research in the social and behavioural sciences. In this course, you will learn the basics of statistics and how it is being applied in various fields. This course will also prepare you for the next course which is Inferential Statistics. You will learn methods of descriptive statistics. You will learn what variables are and how to organize and present data in an effective way. You will learn how to compute measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion. You will learn how to access relationships between variables. You will also learn the basic calculation and the use of index number. You will also be trained on how to use the statistical functions provided by most standard calculators to help you to generate statistics results. You will also be exposed to some statistical software and how to do a simple statistical report.
1. Introduction
When you have completed this chapter, you will be able to:
LO 1.1 : List ways that statistics is used.
LO 1.2 : Know the differences between descriptive and inferential statistics.
LO 1.3 : Understand the differences between a sample and a population.
LO 1.4 : Understand the differences between a statistic and a parameter.
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