Triola & Triola Section 1.1: Overview

1. Describe what a statistician does using action verbs.
2. Distinguish between a population and a sample from a population.
3. Given a statistical query, determine the relevant population, and propose a useful sample from that population.

Triola & Triola Section 1.2: Types of Data

1. Distinguish between a parameter of a population and a statistic of a sample.
2. Specify the characteristics of the two types of data (quantitative / qualitative) and the types of quantitative data (discrete / continuous), and identify the type of a given measurement.

Triola & Triola Section 1.3: Design of Experiments (or Where Do Data Come From?)

1. Distinguish between an observational study and an experimental study, and identify which category a study falls into given its description.
2. Describe how an unobserved mechanism can cause confounding between two observed outcomes.
3. Explain the slogan “association does not imply causation,” and relate the slogan to confounding.