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Lecture 15: Statistical Thinking

This video was recorded at 6.00SC Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Spring 2011 . This lecture presents ways of ascertaining how dependable information extracted from samples is likely to be. It covers standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and standard error. It also shows how to use pylab to produce histograms. Topics covered: Variance, standard deviation, standard error.... Show More

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Author:: John Guttag, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Video

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States