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Welcome to the course notes for STAT 100: Statistical Concepts and Reasoning. These notes are designed and developed by Penn State’s Department of Statistics and offered as open educational resources. These notes are free to use under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0.
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Contributors
These materials have been recently revised by Dr. Dennis Pearl, as well as Scott Kresge and Eli Walters. Earlier authors include Dr. Megan Romer and Dr. Patricia Buchanan.
Course Overview
Statistics is the art and science of using sample data to understand something about the world (or a population) in the context of uncertainty. It is the science of learning from data.