#+TITLE: Quantitative Methods: Introduction
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* What do we aim to achieve in this course?                           :slide:
+ Make friends with numbers
+ Learn how to read numbers, how to present them, and how to write about them
+ Learn how to use computers to work with numbers
* Two Types of Statistics                                             :slide:
** Descriptive Statistics
+ Use summaries of data for the entire population to describe a population
+ Use summaries of sample data to describe a sample
** Inferential Statistics
+ Use sample data to describe a population