CON 270 Exam 1 Flashcards
How do Contracting Specialist use statistics?
- Developing __________ objectives
- Developing an estimate of risk in ______ / ___ analysis
- Developing _______ and _______ price
- Developing an estimate of risk in ________ ____ decision
Government
profit / fee
minimum and maximum
contract type
_______ _________ is the central value around which data observations tend to cluster.
Central Tendency
__________ is the closeness of the clustering or variation within the data set.
Dispersion
Average in central tendency is the ____.
Mean
Middle in central tendency is the ______.
Median
The ____ is most frequent but not necessarily the “majority”.
Mode
Four measures of Dispersion
are _____, ________ , ________ _________, and ___________ __ _________.
Range
Variance
Standard Deviation
Coefficient of Variation
When asked about Relative accuracy, use __.
CV (Coefficient of Variation)
More dispersion (variability) equals greater ____.
risk
________ is the average squared estimating error.
Variance
________ _________ is the average estimating error.
Standard Deviation
___________ __ _________ is the average % estimating error
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
A skew of 0 is ________ distributed.
normally
A skew that is positive is _____ skewed.
right
A skew that is negative is _____ skewed.
left
________ kurtosis is flat.
Negative
________ kurtosis has a peak.
Positive
A kurtosis of 0 is ________ distributed.
normally
The skewness in the data tends to effect the ____ more than the ______.
mean
median
When data is skewed, the ______ is more representative of the data.
median
With __% confidence the Population ____ will fall between the ___ and ___.
90
Mean
min and max
________ deals with dispersion.
Accuracy
When an observation departs significantly from the center of the data it is typically referred to as an “_______”.
outlier
An outlier is greater than + or - 2 times the ________ _________.
standard deviation
A __________ _________ is a statistical range with a specified probability that a given parameter lies within the range.
Confidence interval