Unit 1: Introduction Statistical Biology

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• A vital language and tool in almost all aspects of our daily life.
• A group of methods used to collect, analyze, present, and interpret data and to make decisions.

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Statistics

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Decisions made by using statistical methods.

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Educated guesses

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Decisions made without using statistical or scientific methods.

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Pure guesses

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Deals with the development, derivation, and proof of statistical theorems, formulas, rules, and laws.

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Mathematical/Theoretical statistics

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Involves the application of those theorems, formulas, rules, and laws to solve real-world problems (e.g. economics, psychology, public health).

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Applied statistics

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Consists of methods for organizing, displaying, and describing data by using tables, graphs, and summary measures.

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Descriptive statistics

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Consists of methods that use sample results to help make decisions or predictions about a population from a sample.

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Inferential statistics

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Examples of Descriptive statistic

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• Bar charts, pie charts, and line charts.
• Numerical tables.
• Rates.

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The branch of applied statistics directed toward applications in the health sciences and biology.

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Statistical Biology/Biostatistics

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• A specific subject of object (e.g. a person, a company, a state, or country) about which the information is collected.
• This can also be called an observational unit.

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Element or member of a sample or population

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A characteristic under study that assumes different values of different elements.

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Variable

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The value of a variable for an element.

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Observation or Measurement

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A collection of observations on one or more variables.

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Data set

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Results when a single variable is measured. Example: body temperature of 150 people.

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Univariate data

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Results when two variables are measured. Example: body temperature and age of 150 people.

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Bivariate data

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Results when more than two variables are measured.

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Multivariate data

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The collection of all elements–individuals, items, or objects–whose
characteristics are being studied.

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Population

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The collection of a number of elements selected from a population. It is a subset selected from the target population.

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Sample

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The collection of information that includes every member of the population.

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Census

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The collection of information from the elements of a sample.

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Sample survey

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A numerical measure that summarize data for an entire population.

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Parameter

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A a numerical measure that summarize data from a sample.

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Statistcs

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A method of sampling in which each member of the population has some chance of being selected in the sample.

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Random sampling

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A method of sampling in which some member of the population may not have any chance of being selected in the sample.

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Nonrandom sampling

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The most accessible members of the population are selected to obtain the results quickly.

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Convenience sampling

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The members are selected from the population based on the judgment and prior knowledge of an expert.

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Judgement sampling

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A statistical error that occurs when an analyst does not select a sample that represents the entire population of data.

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Sampling error

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Can occur both in a sample survey and in a census. Such errors occur because of human mistakes and not chance.

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Non-sampling errors

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• The error that occurs because the sampling frames is not representative of the population.
• When we need to select a sample, we use a list of elements from which we draw a sample, and this list usually does not include many members of the target population.

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Selection error

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• The error that occurs because many of the people included in the sample do not respond to a survey.
• The sample are representative of the population, nonresponse error may occur because many of the people included in the sample may not respond to the survey.

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Non-response error

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• Occurs when people included in the survey do not provide correct answers.
• This or bias occurs when the answer given by a person included in the survey is not correct.

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Response error

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• The polls conducted based on samples of readers of magazines and newspapers suffer from voluntary response error or bias.
• Occurs when a survey is conducted on a randomly selected people but on a questionnaire published in a magazine or newspaper and people are invited to respond to that questionnaire

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Voluntary Response Error

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Used to obtain a random sample that represents the target population.

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Random sampling techniques

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A sampling technique in which any particular sample of a specific sample size has the same chance of being selected as any other sample of the same size.

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Simple Random Sampling

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The number of elements in the sample, denoted by n.

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Sample size

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Denoted by N, is the number of elements in the population.

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Population size

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For example, if we need to select 5 students from a class of 50 (target population), we write each of the 50 names on a separate piece of paper. Then, we place all 50 names in a bowl and mix them thoroughly. Next, we draw 1 name randomly from the bowl. We repeat this experiment four more times. The 5 drawn names make up a simple random sample with a sample size of 5.

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Lottery or fishbowl sampling

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A sampling technique in which the elements of the sample are taken from every kth element in the population arranged alphabetically or by other characteristic. Here, k = 𝑁/𝑛 .

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Systematic Random Sampling

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A sampling technique in which the entire population is divided into smaller groups that are not overlapping and represent the entire population.

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Stratified Random Sampling

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A sampling technique in which the entire population is divided into multiple groups usually by geographical area.

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Cluster random sampling

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May be classified as quantitative or qualitative.

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Variable

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Variables that can be measured numerically. These variables are collected in quantitative data such as income, height, gross sales, price of a home, number of cars owned, and a number of accidents.

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Quantitative or Numeric variables

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A variable whose values are countable with no possible intermediate values between consecutive values.

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Discrete variable

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A variable that can assume any numerical value between two numbers.

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Continuous variable

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A variables that cannot be measured numerically can be divided into different categories.

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Qualitative or categorical variables

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A data collected on different elements at the same point or for the same period of time.

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Cross-section data

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A data collectedonthesameelementof the same variable at different points or for different period of time.

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Time-series data

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A manual computations in statistics involve a lot of adding all values of the variable.

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Summation notation.

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Used to denote the sum of all values.

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Uppercase Greek letter Σ (pronounced sigma)