Identification Flashcards
Field of mathematics that deals with chance
Probability
Is an activity in which the results cannot be predicted with certainty
Probability Experiment
Is a result of an experiment
Outcome
Is any collection of possible outcome
Event
is an event with only 1 possible outcome
Simple event
more than 1 sample point in a sample space
Compound Event
Dont have a common sample point from the sample space
Mutually Exclusive Event
All possible outcome
Sample space
as a finite or countable number of values
Discrete Random Variable
Has an Infinite number of values in one or more intervals
Continuous Random Variable
Consists of values and the corresponding probabilities
Probability Distribution
Who is the father of probability
Blaise Pascal
Who is the father of Statistics
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
What is statistics
is a science which deals with scientific methods in gathering organizing, presenting, analyzing and interpreting the data
involves the collection of data (mean, median, mode, range, variance, standard deviation)
Descriptive statistics
involves drawing conclusions (ANOVA, hypothesis testing, regression analysis)
Inferential Statistics
French Mathematician and a physicist
Blaise Pascal
Who introduced normal distribution
Carl Friedrich Gauss
A visual representation used in statistics to display possible outcomes
Tree Diagram
Latin word which means Political State or Government
Status
First to introduce the word Statistics
Gottfried Achenwall
They introduce and popularized in their books the word Statistics
Zimmerman & Sinclair
He discovered the equation for normal distribution
Abraham de Moivre
develop the formula for normal distribution
Adrian & Carl Friedrich Gauss
bell shaoed distribution or haussian distribution
Normal Distribution
Applied statistics to astronomy
Pierre Simon Laplace
develop the mathematical theory of probability
Blaise Pascal and Pierre Fermant
first cousin of Charles darwin
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
applied statistics to hereditary and eugenics he also discovered the percentile rank
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
develop theory of regression and correlation
Karl Pearson
Developed the methods for decision making
William Gosset
his methods were developed in an agricultural and biological setting. Proponent for F test or fisher test used in anova
ronald fisher