I'm taking statistics because I want to raise my GPA a little for college scholarships. I took advanced algebra last year and I got a decent grade an average grade with the work I did that was average. I took stats this year for another reason, and that was for when I'm in the workforce I have the basic knowledge as everyone else. Throughout my high school career I have taken math classes and haven't been completely challenged other than geometry. I have slacked throughout the other classes and I need to know general stats for the real world. This year for stats I feel I'm doing better than previous years for math. I have a “B+” as of the moment, but I broke my collarbone and got behind I'm trying to get back in the groove of things and working …show more content…
I hope what I can achieve from this class an “A” and raise my GPA. My senior year classes are easy to bring up my GPA, I wanted to worry about college and actual things people do in their senior year then homework.
There are ten things stats is very important for such as: weather forecasts, emergency preparedness, predicting diseases, medical studies, genetics, political campaigns, insurance, consumer goods, quality testing, and the stock market. Weather forecasts use stats to predict the weather using prior conditions, the weather forecasts tells us how to prepare for the day and what to expect throughout the day. Emergency teams use the weather forecasts to tell them to be ready or not to help people they use statistics to tell them when danger may occur. When predicting disease the lady or man telling you about the deaths or the disease is spreading it may not
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I like the idea of helping people. When I was young I wanted to be a firefighter, I had no clue why it sounded fun at the time. When I got older I started to change my mind into becoming a history teacher. My father is an art teacher and my brother is going to school to become a math teacher. I decided last year to take the intro to education class. I figured in the class that some students wouldn't like history as much as I do and they would ruin it for me. My senior year I knew that the teaching life was not the life for me. I want to become a firefighter, maybe stay in this area or go out by California and fight wildfires. It's going to exhausting work but I'm willing to do it to help the families and things around. Firefighters use statistics to figure out how many fires or injuries they had throughout the last couple of years. For example if there is 40,000 fires last year and at the end of this year there was 35,000 fires they would use the data from the two years and see the increase or decrease. They can also use statistics in the average age of a firefighter looking at the statistics the average age of a firefighter is anywhere between the age of 30-59 years old. While 16-19 years old is 3% and 20-29 is 21%. the information was used from. (http://www.firerescue1.com/fire-products/Firefighter-Accountability/articles/1063922-Top-10-firefighter-statistics/) and
Statistics provides us with very useful tools and techniques that aide us in dealing with real world scenarios. I have been able to learn several useful concepts by studying statistics that can aide me in making rational and informed decisions that are supported by the analysis results. Statistics as a discipline is the application and development of various processes put in place to gather, interpret, and analyse the information. The quantification of biological, social, and scientific phenomenons, design and analysis of experiments and surveys, and application of
Being a firefighter is everything to me; it’s my dream job. But why did I want to embark on a lifelong, rewarding journey as a fireman? Looking back, I realized that three things really intensified my love for firefighting and sparked my dreams to become a career firefighter. The first was a near fatal car accident that my grand mom was involved in. My next realization is simple - I love helping others and having the potential to do something positive for the community I serve. Finally, the excitement along with the adrenaline I have when I get to go on a call Is like no other feeling; there is no other feeling that I can compare it to.
Reading over the outcomes and objectives, how will the skills developed in this class apply to your chosen career or field of study? If you are “undecided,” how will these skills help you in your future in college and in general?
• Provide at least two examples or problem situations in which statistics was used or could be used.
To ensure a successful end to my high school career, I joined CORE Academy and Basketball. These classes and sport will help me because they both demand an average gpa to stay in. Since I really want to play, and stay in CORE, I will do my best to keep an above average gpa.Also I am retaking a class I failed in the past to catch up on my credits. Lastly I will attend summer school to either get ahead with credits, catch up, or maybe just fix a grade I received in the past.
AP Statistics is a great start to further your education in a math-related field. As this class will look impressive on your transcript and there is a possibility of college credit if you score well enough on the AP exam with accords to your college choice standards. The course will provide an in-depth overview of exploring data, sampling and experimentation, anticipating patterns, and statistical inference. You will study statistics and apply it to intricate problems.
After the second semester ended and I had completed all of the steps in my action measurement plan, all I had to do was wait for the results. As this semester has been coming to a close, none of the grades are official quite yet, but one thing is already unfortunately set in stone. My goal of improving my GPA most likely has not been met. After looking at all of the grades currently in blackboard, I was unable to enjoy some of the same successes I did last semester. But after evaluating myself, and current work efforts, I have improved in these areas. Although I did not achieve my main goal of raising my GPA, I reshuffled some strategies to set in place a system that will help me raise my GPA.
Statistics are used in many different ways in my workplace. The use of statistics is for the improvement of quality care and safety. Statistics are also used to measure employee compliance in regards to hand washing and proper use of policies and procedures. We also use charts and graphs to show infection rates, skin integrity, falls within the facility, budget concerns, and many more. These graphs help hospital personal improve care and safety to provide quality care to all patients. Graphs can also be used to measure patient and employee satisfaction.
Breann, I appreciate your comments on this topic. The way you composed your second sentence is thought provoking. “Stats let us know if…we are making a difference…or if we are a revolving door.” I think that sometimes we conform to getting the job or task done than with making a lasting change. I also agree that keeping accurate stats help keep the workload light when it is done correctly the first time.
What I gathered from the thoughts and facts of the 2014-2015 AP Statistics students, were explicit insights on how rigorous and demanding the class is going to expect from me. I understand my math background has not placed me at the best starting point for AP Statistics, but I also know that statistics is not like algebra. In Algebra I would spend hours after school trying to understand the material, only to receive little to no progress on the days a test. I recognize that in Statistics we will be given homework every day, but will not have it collected or graded all of the time, and acknowledge that it will take discipline, maturity, as well as self motivation to not fall behind and get it accomplished because in the end it could either set
Stats 250 is one of the biggest classes at the university of Michigan. It's a class with concepts that is applicable to life, therefore stats 250 is one of the requisites for many majors at the University of Michigan. I have personal never official taken a stats course until this semester, however I never noticed how much I used stats in my logic and reasoning up until now. In the future, I plan to be apart of and hopeful conduct my own research one day. Stats will come on handy for this very purpose. For instance, in order to best interpret my data, I would need to know the basics ideas of concepts we have learned in stats. Concepts such as, testing competing theories, errors, sample size and what is statistical
Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines, from the physical and social sciences to the humanities. Statistics are also used for making informed decisions and misused for other reasons in all areas of business and government. Statistical methods can be used to summarize or describe a collection of data; this is called descriptive statistics. In addition, patterns in the data may be modeled in a way that accounts for randomness and uncertainty in the observations, and then used to draw inferences about the process or population being studied; this is called inferential statistics. Both
Ever since grade school I had never been the biggest fan of math. It wasn’t that I was bad at math, but I have never had a huge interest in the subject. With that being said I put off taking Stats 215 until my winter semester of my junior year, because I didn’t think I would have any interest in the course. I figured that it was going to be like every other math class I have ever taken, being boring with no real application to the career I want to pursue. After being in the class for a week I realized that I couldn’t have been more wrong. One example of how Stats 215 surprised me was on how I actually took a great deal of interest in the class. Going into the class my interest level was very low, and my only reason for taking the class was
I have learned so much in this class to prepare me for a successful college experience. There were some topics that caught my attention more than others. Such as, time and stress management, University resources, and critical thinking.
The word statistics has a Latin origin where the word status means state. Statistics is defined as the science that helps us understand how to collect, organize and interpret numbers or other information (data) about some topic (Bennett, et al., 2003). It is a discipline of data collection and summarizing to aid understanding and decision-making. It is also concerned with evaluation of the present status and predicting the future (Stockberger, 1996). Statistics studies the nature of a relationship between two or more variables of interest by using the numerical statistical data. Moreover only statistics makes it possible to analyze these relationships (Kachigan, 1986).