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Introductory Statistics

v1.0 Douglas S. Shafer and Zhiyi Zhang

Chapter 1 Introduction

In this chapter we will introduce some basic terminology and lay the groundwork for the course. We will explain in general terms what statistics and probability are and the problems that these two areas of study are designed to solve.