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STUDY GUIDE Psychology 230: STATISTICS Unit I: Descriptive Statistics Lesson I-1: Statistics, Science, and Observations (CH.1, p.4) Populations and Samples (CH.1, pp.4-10) Objectives: a) Distinguish between a population and a sample. b) Distinguish between descriptive statistics and inferential statistic Key terms: statistics population sample parameter statistic data descriptive statistics inferential statistics sampling error Lesson I-2: Data Structures, Research Methods, and Statistics (CH.1, pp.10-18) Objectives: a) Identify two methods for obtaining o