Professor Miller's Specific Resources
Background Information:
Keyword Examples
If you look at the background articles above, you will see that there are important words in the articles. These words may be used to search for information on your topic. We use keywords when we search the databases.
- plastic pollution
- single-use plastics
- microbeads
- plastic bags
- plastic straws
-recycling
and so many more......
Statistics is a tricky business. The casual reader doesn't understand statistics in any great depth, while the experienced reader often knows a lot about the subject. Balancing between these two extremes is often difficult, and far from natural. The following resource is meant as a guide to writing statistics.
This guide is not meant to teach you statistics, but rather how to use statistics more effectively in your writing. This guide is designed to help you understand both how to write using other people's statistics, and how to write using your own statistics. If you want to learn how to interpret statistics, then take a course taught by a professional. For an excellent beginner's textbook, see Introduction to the Practice of Statistics by David S. Moore and George P. McCabe.
In the casual sense, a statistic is any number that describes a group of objects. There are two main categories of statistics, descriptive and inferential.
Examples of Descriptive Statistics
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