Descriptive statistics are the cornerstone of data analysis. ... whether it represents a sample or the entire population. ... form a hypothesis, and examine the cause-and-result relationship.

Hypothesis testing is a procedure for evaluating the strength of a hypothesis. ... A random sample of 100 coin flips is taken, and the results are recorded.

You can compute descriptive statistics, perform simple hypothesis tests, and fit models with analysis of variance and regression analysis. There are also tasks for survival analysis, mixed models, ...

In this module, we develop a formal approach to hypothesis testing, based on a “likelihood ratio” that can be more generally applied than any of the tests we have discussed so far. We will pay special ...

During the twentieth century, biology — traditionally a descriptive science — became one of hypothesis-driven experimentation. Tightly coupled with this was the increasing dominance of ...