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Basic statistics revision notes

If you are to make any sense of these notes, you need to get to grips with stats notation.

Descriptive stats

Types of data  *Plots  Summary statistics 

Probability

probability notation, sets, probability rules

Discrete random variable

Discrete distributions Basic examples Binomial distribution examples Geometric distribution examples Poisson distribution examples Poisson approximation to the Binomial Bivariate random variables

Continuous random variables

Continuous distributions Basic examples Z-score Normal approximation to the Poisson Normal approximation to the Binomial Normal distribution examples 

Expectations, variance and covariance rules

List of rules

Estimation

Formulae for confidence intervals

Hypothesis testing

Hypothesis testing formula sheet Z test

Goodness-of-fit test

Goodness of fit test formula

Crosstabs

Crosstabs formula sheet

ANOVA

ANOVA formula sheet

* Material to follow