应用统计学-第一课--英文.pptxVIP

Business Data Analysis73-102 Lecture 01AgendaGo through Course Outline (on CLEW)Brief Introduction to StatisticsReview of Random VariableReview of Normal DistributionKeep in TouchIf you have a question, you are STRONGLY encouraged to ASK IT IN CLASS. You are probably not the only one that needs the question answered, and other students may benefit from your questions, too.Check our course website regularly. Announcements, assignments, and solutions etc will be posted online regularly.Drop by during office hours or book another time to see me in my office.What is Statistics?In this course, we focus on inferential statisticsStatistics is about a complete set of data (population) and wanting to know the unknown truth (a numerical measure of that population (parameter) or the pattern of the population’s data).Statistics is about obtaining a subset (sample) of these data and using information contained in the sample (a numerical measure of that sample (statistic) or the pattern of the sample’s data) to make inferences about this unknown truth.What is Statistics?To make those inferences, we need to know the relationship between the statistic (of a sample) and the parameter (of a population) or we need to know the relationship between the sample’s pattern and the population’s pattern and how to manipulate these relationships.What is Statistics?No matter what truth statistics is seeking and no matter what data are collected, the truth we are seeking and the sample information we obtain must be expressed quantitatively and how they are expressed depends on the type of data that is available and/or required.In summary, statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting and presenting data in a useful manner.Discrete Random VariableA discrete random variable has a countable number of distinct values.Examples: Flip a coin; Roll a die.Nomenclature:- Capital letters are used to represent random variables (e.g., X, Y).- Lower case letters are used to rep