Find the score that 80% of students will exceed. Consider the NAEP scores, which are approximately Normal, N(288, 38). Eighty percent of the students will score above x on this exam. Find x.
STAT 2000 Chapter 1: Learning from Data Defining Statistics: Statistics is a way of reasoning along with a collection of tools and methods, designed to help us understand the world Statistics is the scientific discipline, which consists of: o Formulating a research question o The collection of data o Describing data o Drawing conclusions or generalizations from data Our ability to answer questions and draw conclusions from data depends largely on our ability to understand variation . The key to learning from data is understanding the variation that is all around us. Definition: Statistics, as a field of study, is the science of learning from data. This definition raises two qu
