History of Statistics

  Who discovered statistics and Why?
  What is statistics?
  Why study statistics?

What Statisticians Do

  Current Applications of statistics
  Jobs/Careers that use statistics
  Type of problems statisticians deal with everyday

Faulty Information

  Arithmetic errors
  False percentages
  Fictitious precision
  Misleading presentation
  Incomplete data
  Fault comparison

Sampling

  Basic ideas
  Random sampling
  Sample size
  Other sampling methods

Significance Tests

  How the level of significance is calculated
  Why the normal distribution is important
  Are all test statistics normally distributed

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