Lecture 2 teacher presentation from UC Berkeley Introduction to Statistics course, and the course is an introduction to statistical reasoning, which is a framework for learning from data. The course starts with descriptive statistics to summarize important features of data collected without requiri...
, Major concepts
Make sure you can define each of these after reading
chapters 1 & 2
• Treatment group, control group
• Randomized controlled study
• Observational study
• Confounder / confounding variable
• Historical controls, contemporaneous controls
• Placebo effect
• Double blind
• Sample size
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