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Lecture 06 : Objectives, Steps and Basic Definitions

Introduces the purpose of descriptive statistics, the distinction between a sample and a population, and numerical and graphical ways to summarise variation. The instructor explains that the course focuses on implementing these tools in R.

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An accessible orientation before moving from raw observations to summaries and inference.

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