I. Introduction

Prerequisites
none

1. What are Statistics?
2. Importance of Statistics
3. Descriptive Statistics
4. Inferential Statistics
5. Sampling Demonstration
6. Variables
7. Percentiles
8. Measurement
   1. Levels of Measurement
   2. Measurement Demonstration
   3. Basics of Data Collection
9. Distributions
10. Summation Notation
11. Linear Transformations
12. Exercises
13. PDF Files (in .zip archive)

This first chapter begins by discussing what statistics are and why the study of statistics is important. Subsequent sections cover a variety of topics all basic to the study of statistics. The only theme common to all of these sections is that they cover concepts and ideas important for other chapters in the book.