Introduction to Statistics

This is a course designed to take out the intimidation factor from Statistics. It is designed to show you how to, right away, use statistics for your own projects. Everything is explained clearly and simply, using interesting and informative graphics. The course also shows you the incredible usefulness and power of statistics. The course is a thorough introduction to Statistics, but without getting caught up in a swamp of formulas.

Statistics is the study of the •collection •organization •analysis •interpretation and •presentation of data.

It deals with all aspects of data including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of research projects.

Statistics is alternately described as a mathematical body of science that pertains to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data, or as a branch of mathematics concerned with collecting and interpreting data.

After a brief Introduction we study Measurement and Scales, Statistics, Variables, Graphic Display of Variables, Measures of Central Tendency, Measures of Dispersion, Correlation, Probability, Comparison of Two Means, Types of Variables, Regression Analysis, Analysis of Variance, List of Statistical Formulas

It is a companion course to my online Research Methods and Design course. Statistics play a fundamental role in research and of our understanding of the world. Statistics are everywhere, they manifest themselves in every quantitative facet of human understanding. In this course we emphasize the role of Scaling Theory as a foundation for all statistical analyses.

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.