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Anonymous asked in Science & MathematicsMathematics · 9 years ago

What is the hardest part about College Statistics?

Hello,

I'm taking a College Elementary Statistics course right now and was wondering what topics in Statistics people found the most difficult?

Probability

Discrete Probability Distributions

Normal Probability Distributions

Sample Sizes

Hypothesis Testing

Inferences from Two Samples

Correlation and Regression?

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    9 years ago
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    I didn't like statistics, but I didn't find any part of it difficult. If you've studied algebra and calculus, and have a good foundation in those, statistics won't have a hardest part for you. Plan on doing a lot of memorizing of terms, and being able to see the difference between definitions which are similar. I noticed that a lot of other students seemed to have trouble grasping what p-value was, even though they could arrive at the correct answer. I think part of the difficulty some people have is that statistics is very different than studying other types of mathematics.

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