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Identification Flashcards

1
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Field of mathematics that deals with chance

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Probability

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2
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Is an activity in which the results cannot be predicted with certainty

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Probability Experiment

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Is a result of an experiment

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Outcome

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Is any collection of possible outcome

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Event

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5
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is an event with only 1 possible outcome

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Simple event

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more than 1 sample point in a sample space

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Compound Event

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Dont have a common sample point from the sample space

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Mutually Exclusive Event

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8
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All possible outcome

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Sample space

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9
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as a finite or countable number of values

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Discrete Random Variable

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Has an Infinite number of values in one or more intervals

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Continuous Random Variable

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11
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Consists of values and the corresponding probabilities

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Probability Distribution

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12
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Who is the father of probability

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Blaise Pascal

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13
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Who is the father of Statistics

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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

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14
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What is statistics

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is a science which deals with scientific methods in gathering organizing, presenting, analyzing and interpreting the data

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15
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involves the collection of data (mean, median, mode, range, variance, standard deviation)

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Descriptive statistics

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16
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involves drawing conclusions (ANOVA, hypothesis testing, regression analysis)

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Inferential Statistics

17
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French Mathematician and a physicist

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Blaise Pascal

18
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Who introduced normal distribution

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

19
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A visual representation used in statistics to display possible outcomes

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Tree Diagram

20
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Latin word which means Political State or Government

21
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First to introduce the word Statistics

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Gottfried Achenwall

22
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They introduce and popularized in their books the word Statistics

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Zimmerman & Sinclair

23
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He discovered the equation for normal distribution

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Abraham de Moivre

24
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develop the formula for normal distribution

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Adrian & Carl Friedrich Gauss

25
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bell shaoed distribution or haussian distribution

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Normal Distribution

26
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Applied statistics to astronomy

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Pierre Simon Laplace

27
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develop the mathematical theory of probability

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Blaise Pascal and Pierre Fermant

28
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first cousin of Charles darwin

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Francis Galton (1822-1911)

29
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applied statistics to hereditary and eugenics he also discovered the percentile rank

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Francis Galton (1822-1911)

30
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develop theory of regression and correlation

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Karl Pearson

31
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Developed the methods for decision making

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William Gosset

32
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his methods were developed in an agricultural and biological setting. Proponent for F test or fisher test used in anova

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ronald fisher

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