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This chapter serves to define the statistical basics, like the concepts of populations and samples, and of probability distributions. It also includes a short overview of study design, a topic often seriously underestimated by many beginning researchers.
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Haslwanter, T. (2016). Background. In: An Introduction to Statistics with Python. Statistics and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28316-6_5
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