1.6 Learning Objectives Revisited

As a result of completing this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

• Tell what statistics is and how useful it is to solve real-life and work issues (Section 1.1).
• Identify the population and sample of a study (Section 1.1).
• Identify whether a study is descriptive or inferential (Section 1.1).
• Draw a simple random sample using the random-number table (Section 1.2).
• Distinguish designed experiments and observational studies (Section 1.2).
• Distinguish two types of data: quantitative and qualitative/categorical (Section 1.3).
• Describe qualitative/categorical data using pie charts and bar charts (Section 1.4).
• Describe quantitative data using stem-and-leaf diagrams and histograms (Section 1.4).
• Describe the shape of a histogram (Section 1.5).