Statistics: Power from Data!
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About Statistics: Power from Data!
Inside the world of Statistics Canada
Data, information and statistics
- Types of data collection
- History of the census
- Data collection methods
- Questionnaire design
- Role of interviewers
- Exercise
- Answers
- Lesson plans
- Introduction
- Data capture
- Data editing
- Imputation
- Data quality
- Producing results
- Exercise
- Answers
- Lesson plans
Problems with using information
- Misinterpretation of statistics
- Sampling error
- Non-sampling error
- Summary
- Exercises
- Answers
- Lesson plans
Confidentiality, privacy and security
- Using graphs
- Bar graphs
- Pictographs
- Pie charts
- Line graphs
- Scatterplots
- Histograms and histographs
- Summary
- Make a graph!
- Exercise
- Lesson plans
- Range and quartiles
- Variance and standard deviation
- Five-number summaries
- Box and whisker plots
- Exercise
- Answers
- Lesson plans
- Selection of a sample
- Probability sampling
- Non-probability sampling
- Estimation
- Exercise
- Answers
- Lesson plans
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