Describing Data

This Describing Data section covers the sessions on descriptive statistics (plus confidence intervals).

Descriptive statistics is the foundation of analyzing collected data, the starting place.

This section introduces you to

• determination of estimators for samples,
• the language of probability and distribution,
• comparison of the frequentist vs. Bayesian approaches,
• visualization of data in a meaningful way, and
• comparisons between common error metrics.

These basics are essential in both exploratory and confirmatory research!