Basic Statistics - L.I.F.E. talk

Syllabus list of topics

https://sites.google.com/site/kirbyvariety/basic-statistics-syllabus

"How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrel Huff (1954)

  1. Probability, gambling and the meaning of statistics

    1. How many are like that?

    2. What is the chance I will find one of those?

  2. Measures of central tendency and of variation

  3. Commonly, the mean (average) and standard deviation

  4. Look at Z scores, a.k.a. standard scores, and look for outliers of 2 or more

  5. Stochastic processes (number of customers per hour)

  6. Process control and Deming

  7. Using a computer: Microsoft's Excel and other spreadsheets, such as Google Sheets and Open Office

  8. Contingency tables - frequencies and probabilities

  1. Samples and populations

  2. Correlation

  3. Analysis of variance

  4. Non-parametrics and distributiions, such as the bell-shaped ("normal") curve

  5. Galton boards

  6. Big data, "Everything is Obvious Once You Know the Answer", "Everybody Lies", "Uncharted" by Aiden and Michel, "Moneyball" and "The Undoing Project"

  7. Additional topics: Bayesian statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence