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The student took an introductory statistics course which uses R programming. They read the course materials for Unit 1, including the textbook chapter. They installed R and RStudio on their computer and watched R tutorials on YouTube. The student completed a quiz for Unit 1 after feeling they understood the material well enough. They then participated in the discussion forum by posting a reply and reviewing peers' posts. Finally, they completed and submitted the learning journal.

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Learning Journal - Unit 1

The student took an introductory statistics course which uses R programming. They read the course materials for Unit 1, including the textbook chapter. They installed R and RStudio on their computer and watched R tutorials on YouTube. The student completed a quiz for Unit 1 after feeling they understood the material well enough. They then participated in the discussion forum by posting a reply and reviewing peers' posts. Finally, they completed and submitted the learning journal.

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Learning Journal – Unit 1

1. Learning Journal Reflective Comments:

During the course registration, one of the courses listed that I can take in this term is
“Introduction to Statistics”. I wanted to take the course not only as part of the degree
requirement but I always wanted to understand “Descriptive Statistics” which I require in
Machine Learning. By the way, I aspire to be a Data Scientist.

January 27th, 2022:


As I always do in the beginning of each term, I read the section “General Information and
Forums”. This is a very important section I check every week as the instructor puts his/her
new instructions and additional materials.

January 28th, 2022:


I continued reading the “Learning Guide – Unit 1” covering all the required materials for the
week and the course. I read the prescribed chapter from the textbook. I even browsed few
additional materials regarding installation of R and RStudio on my Mac. Then I also took
some time to go through additional R tutorials on YouTube. By the way, I am excited as the
course uses extensively the R programming language rather than focus on the mathematical
computation of Statistics. Such approach goes hand in hand to my aspiration as I needed to
have a hands-on practice.

January 29th, 2022:


I did the quiz as I felt that I have adequate understanding of the subject matter (at least for
the week).

January 31th, 2022:


I started working on “Discussion Forum” and posted my reply. Then I rated three of my
peers with my review. Then I worked on the “Learning Journal” which I submitted after
completing.

2. Vocabulary and R functions

> ?table

In R when we prefix a command with a question mark, it displays the help document
regarding the command, in our example about the command “table”. The documentation is
the best place to find out how to use the command through detailed explanation and code
examples.

> x <- c(5, 8, 4, 1, 5, 6, 5, 9, 4, 2, 5, 7, 5, 3, 6, 4, 5, 3, 7, 6)


> table(x)
x
123456789

1
112363211

The output of the command “table” with the parameter of “x”, which is a vector, shows the
set of values in the vector and their frequency.

The first row shows the set of the values within the vector (x)
The second row shows the frequency of each value in the vector.

For instance, in the example the value “5” appears “6” times in the vector x, while the value
“9” appears only “1” times in the vector.

3. Task (References: Question 1.1 page 10-12 and self-Quiz Unit 1 Question 6 and 7)

a) Read section 1.5 in the Yakir textbook.  If you were a teacher and had 30 students in
your class and wanted to know the class average on the first quiz, would you use a
parameter or a statistic?  Why?

The class average on the first quiz is the parameter of my class. Parameter is the
measurement of my population which equals to 30. Since the population is of manageable
size, I take all of it and the parameter is computed.

b) If you wanted to know how many people in your country recognize the name of your
new company, would you use a parameter or a statistic?  Why?

In this scenario, the population is the number of people in my country. Since it is difficult to
use it in full, I take a sample of it and take the statistic of the sample. The poll I take is the
statistic of my study.

Reference
R Programming Language. (n.d).
The r project for statistical
computing. Retrieved from
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https://www.r-project.org/
Reference:

Yakir, B. (2011). Introduction to statistical thinking (with R, without calculus). The Hebrew


University of Jerusalem, Department of Statistics.

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