Chapter 1 & 2

population : In statistics, we are interested in obtaining information about a total collection of elements, which we will refer to as the “population

Def. “Sample mean” :=

Def. “Sample variance”

Def. “Sample standard deviation”

Def. 2.4.Chebyshev’s inequality

proof.

Since ,

2.6 Paired datasets and the sample correlation coefficient.

Def. The smaple correlation coefficient Correlation measures association, not causation.