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1 What is statistics? “Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data.”

2 How tall are students in this class? How can we answer this question? What data would you need to collect?

3 How tall are students in this class? MEAN: Mean = 69.30

4 How tall are students in this class? S = 4.84 STANDARD DEVIATION:

5 Mean = 8.88 Std Dev = 1.90 Mean = 9.02 Std Dev = 3.77

6 How tall are students in Michigan? How can we answer this question? Would you need a different sample compared to our previous question?

7 How tall are students in Michigan? STANDARD ERROR: SE = 0.80

8 Are students in Michigan taller than students in Ohio?

9 SQUARED! Half the class gets bean type 1, half the class bean type 2 Do the two types of beans have different lengths?

10 MEAN: STANDARD DEVIATION: STANDARD ERROR:


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