Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Day 2: Basic understanding on Statistics... (Book: Probability and Statistics for Engineers)

Welcome again...

As you must have seen in my yesterday's blog that I've started reading the statistics book.

My main intention is to finish the syllabus as of first week of June so that we have enough time to go through with the problems, solutions and previous question papers.

Considering this as a valid point that I've to finish the syllabus I've just changed the idea of using "Statistics" book. Now I would be studying from Irwin Miller book called "Probability and Statics for engineers" and the statistics book will go on side by side.

The first two chapter of Miller book has explained the basic things that we must know while reading Statistics. It is very important to clear that why we are using Statistics?

Statistics is meant to be the compressed meaningful data.

Mean, and median are two ways to show the average and middle part, respectively. They both are affected by if the given data are not closed by and hence we use Variance and Deviation.

The meaning of deviation is that the difference between data point and mean.

I've gone through from few formulas that you will be able to find this in my formula list (coming soon...).

For now it is enough and tomorrow we will study real Probability...


Good luck...


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