Biostat Flashcards
Are values below which a specified fraction or percentage of a given observation in a data set must fall.
Measure of location or Fractiles
3 Commonly used measures of dispersion other than MAD and Standard deviation.
Coefficient Variation
Interquartile Range
Quartile Deviation
Is another measures of dispersion which is defined as the ratio of the standard deviation to its mean.
Coefficient Variation
Is the difference between the Third quartile and the first quartile.
Interquartile Range
Is half of the Interquartile Range
Quartile Deviation
Is a popular term it is being used in anything we encounter everyday and almost in all fields like sports, medicine, meteorology, gambling, and even love life.
Probability
Is the study of chance and is very fundamental subject that we apply in everyday living.
Probability
More concerned with how we handle data using different analysis technique and collection method
Statistics
Deals with prediction the likelihood of future events.
Probability
Involves the analysis of the frequency of past events.
Statistics
Is primarily a theoretical branch of mathematics which studies the consequences of mathematical definitions
Probability
An action through which counts, measurements, or responses are obtained.
Probability experiment
The set of all possible outcomes
Sample space (Example {1,2,3,4,5,6})
Subset of the sample space
Event (example die is even {2,4,6})
The result of a single trial
Outcome (Example {4}