Skill 1

Individuals

- Whatever you’re getting information about

- (The Categories and People)

Variable

-Numerical

-Categorical

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Example Problem 1.2

How do you find out who recycles more?

- Quantity

- group --> quantity ( middle class trash weighs less, so you can't measure by weight)

- equivalence (One wine bottle = ? amount of soda cans)

- amount of recyclable purchases to the percent of those things recycled

-assign a value to the numbers on the recycled materials

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*Coming up with a question and figuring out the best way to prove or disprove what your question asked, is the basis of statistics

*Is it categorical or numerical? Some can go both ways.

EX. Sports Teams (# of sports teams OR types of sports teams)

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http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm *good website for statistics of most everything. Bar graphs that can be used as categorical or numerical