Quantitative Methods: Introduction Title slide (org-show-animate '("Quantitative Methods" "Introduction" "Vikas Rawal" "Prachi Bansal" "" "" "")) Title slide (org-show-animate '("Why do financial journalists need to know quantitative methods?" "" "" "")) What do we aim to achieve in this course? Make friends with numbers Learn how to read numbers, how to present them, and how to write about them Learn how to use computers to work with numbers Two Types of Statistics Descriptive Statistics Use summaries of data for the entire population to describe a population Use summaries of sample data to describe a sample Inferential Statistics Use sample data to describe a population