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#+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