IMGD2905 Final Topic Outline

Here is an outline of the topics that might be on the final exam:

• Descriptive statistics
  • Measures of variation / spread
    • Range
    • Variance
    • Standard deviation
    • Coefficient of variation
    • Semi-inter quartile range
    • Z-Score
    • Mendenhall's Empirical Rule
  • Charts for showing variation / spread
    • Box and whiskers
    • Error bars
• Probability
  • Events
    • Exhaustive
    • Mutually exclusive
  • Assigning probabilities
    • Classical
    • Empirical
    • Subjective
  • Probability rules
    • Complement
    • Mutually exclusive
    • Independent
    • Not independent
  • Probability distributions
    • Uniform
    • Binomial
    • Poisson
    • Normal
      • Standard normal
      • Normality testing with QQ plots
• Inferential statistics
  • Central Limit Theorem
  • Sampling error
  • Standard error
  • Confidence intervals
  • Hypothesis testing

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