IntroStats 1.1 – Introduction and Overview of Statistics

Course: Introductory Statistics
Chapter 1: Part 1

We discuss the outline of the course for the semester, introduce the field of statistics (and how powerful it is), populations, samples, types of studies, random & simple random samples, and parameters versus statistics. We finish with a simple example.

Lecture Notes (pdf):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAZK0j5ePKDcgxMGIk582rVhiuvF993r/view?usp=sharing

Textbook:
Understanding Basic Statistics (7th Edition by Brase and Brase).
*Note*: Some videos were created in Spring 2020 using the 7th Edition, while videos revised in the Fall of 2020 used the 8th edition.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Statistics
00:15 Lecture Overview
00:31 What is Statistics (boring)
00:52 What is Statistics (exciting)
01:52 Descriptive vs. Inferential Statistics
02:58 The Amazing Ability of Statistical Analysis (Inference)
04:09 The Various Types of Statistical Analyses
05:27 The strategy for the course: why and how it is organized
06:25 Course Outline
06:50 Vocabulary (Observational Studies vs. Experimental Designs)
07:57 Vocabulary: Key Terms
09:01 Vocabulary: Random and Simple Random Samples
10:16 Vocabulary: Parameters vs. Statistics
11:25 Example
13:15 Closing Slide