5:  Introduction to quantitative issues


- Summary measures: mean, variance, standard deviation

- Populations and samples

- Probability

  o  Relative frequency vs. subjective probability

  o  Conditional probability

  o  Independence

  o  Chaining of probabilities

  o  Bayes's Rule

- Hypothesis tests

  o  The basic hypothesis test

  o  "Proving" things statistically

- Estimation and smoothing