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Teach statistical concepts with Stata


My first statistics course primarily consisted of plugging numbers into formulas. I did not leave that course with any real idea of how statistics differed from basic algebra. The next course I took is what put it all together, and I’ve loved statistics ever since. In that course, we examined the relationships between a population and its samples. I learned that using just a small amount of data, statistics enables us to make inferences about the entire population. Now that is cool! Read more…