To address questions like these, the course is divided into three topics:
- In Topic 1, we examine the characteristics of point estimates – measurements that we take from samples to make inferences about a population.
- Topic 2 deals with confidence intervals , which help us to establish upper and lower limits about where we think the “true” population characteristic lies, at a certain level of confidence.
- In Topic 3, which is the largest and most important part of this course, we explore hypothesis testing. This includes one-, two- and many-sample forms of testing.
