#+TITLE: Quantitative Methods: Introduction #+PROPERTY: header-args:R :session acj :eval never-export #+STARTUP: hideall inlineimages hideblocks #+HTML_HEAD: * Title slide :slide: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp-slide (org-show-animate '("Quantitative Methods" "Introduction" "Vikas Rawal" "Prachi Bansal" "" "" "")) #+END_SRC * Title slide #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp-slide (org-show-animate '("Why do financial journalists need to know quantitative methods?" "" "" "")) #+END_SRC * 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