Archive for February, 1998

Fundamentals of Statistics

Tuesday, February 17th, 1998

Lesson Number One:

There is good statistics and bad statistics.

As with most thing in life, what is bad can only be appreciated by
understanding what is good. An example of a good statisticis is “the average
weight of the Raider’s offensive line 268 pounds”. This is known as a
Descriptive Statistic. It is a measurement that tell you something about a
group of objects or events.

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