Statistical Analysis

This section is meant to be a review of basic statistics that can be used for student research. Consult statistical textbooks or websites for other statistical tools.

1. Value of Statistics
2. Variables
3. Parameters
4. Statistic
5. Populations vs. Samples
6. Describing Distributions of Populations from Samples
7. Descriptors of Distributions: Mean, Mode and Median
8. Descriptors of Distributions: Range, Variance and Standard Deviation
9. The Normal Distributions
10. Statistical Inference
11. Comparing Sample Means
12. Goodness of Fit (Chi square)
13. Goodness of Fit: Two-way Classification
14. Measurements of relationship: Correlation and Linear regression