1.1 Intro to STAT

Question 1

Descriptive Statistics

Answer 1

Consists of methods of collecting, organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in an informative way

Question 2

Inferential Statistics

Answer 2

A body of methods used to draw conclusions, generalize, or infer about characteristics of a population based on sample data

Question 3

population

Answer 3

consists of all subjects or items of interest, the group being studied

Question 4

Census

Answer 4

the collection of data from every member of a population

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parameter

Answer 5

a numerical measurement describing a population

Question 6

sample

Answer 6

a group selected from the population, subset of the population to provide information used to infer information about populations

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statistic

Answer 7

a numerical measurement describing a sample

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Individuals

Answer 8

subjects or experimental units, objects described by a set of data

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variable

Answer 9

any characteristic of an individual

Question 10

values

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of a variable are the possible observations of the variable

Question 11

data

Answer 11

are the observed values of the variable