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Quantitative Methods: Introduction

Title slide   slide 

(org-show-animate '("Quantitative Methods" "Introduction" "Vikas Rawal" "Prachi Bansal" "" "" ""))

Title slide 

(org-show-animate '("Why do financial journalists need to know quantitative methods?" "" "" ""))

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