Selected ideas and methods covered up to exam 1

Full coverage = units 1 - 4 

• What is statistics and biostatistics? 
• Measurement 
• Measurement type 
• Data organization: variables, values, observations
• Measurement quality / data errors 
• Sampling, random sampling
• Stem-and-leaf 
• Shape, location and spread
• Frequency table (freq, relative freq, cumulative freq)
• Mean and standard deviation
• 5-point summary
• Box-and-whiskers
• Probability basics
• The binomial model 
• The Normal model