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CHAPTER 4

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

INSTRUCTIONS AND LESSON

 

In Chapter 2 you discovered how to take existing data and describe the data using both pictures (histograms, pie charts etc..) and numeric measures (mean, median, Q1). In chapter 3 you learned the basics of probability theory. Chapter 4 takes these two ideas and combines them to help us to determine what we might expect to happen.

You will be studying random variables, probability distributions, the binomial distribution and the Poisson distribution.

Please read this chapter.

 

Below you will find some lesson material for chapter 4. Take the link for some help with what you are reading. Don't forget to complete the homework, do the lab and participate in the discussion list

Section 1 & 2: Random Variables

Section 3: Binomial Experiments

Section 4: Mean, variance and standard deviation for the binomial distribution

Section 5: Poisson Distribution