In this podcast, students from the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg speak about important texts from their degree programme. Each episode features a different team of hosts who present one text. The hosts say why and how those texts are important and give an introduction in order to help access and read the long and often complicated texts.
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Ep. 4a Inferential statistics - mind the gap
In episode 4a of talking texts inferential statistics – mind the gap We, Karina and Bernadette,discuss the text: “Inference and error in surveys” in: Survey Methodology by Groves et al. We explain the meaning of the words inference and error, summarize the text and talk about why it is relevant. In addition, we talk about Sherlock Holmes and how statistics can make the world a better place.
These time cues will help you find the topics we discussed or resume where you stopped listening.
00:00:00 Introduction of hosts, topic and text
00.02.34 Part 1
00.02.34 What does inference mean?
00:03:58 What is error in statistics?
00:04.36 How seeing error from a statistician's point of view might improve our lives
00:05:43 Part 2 What is the text about and why does it matter?
00:05:59 Features of the text we found difficult
00:06:54 Summary of the text
00:08:50 Why is the text relevant
link to episode page
http://talkingtexts.de/episode-4/?preview_id=131&preview_nonce=2021cc2346&preview=true
Cover art: Anna Mahendra
Music Bela Bartok, Irene Damert, Felix Spieß