Mathworld 113 Flashcards
Involves collection organization, summarization, presentation and interpretation of data.
STATISTICS
branch that involves collection, organization, summarization, and
presentation of data.
Descriptive Statistics
branch that interprets and draw conclusion from the data.
Inferential Statistics
known as average and is the numerical value that locates the center of a set of data.
Measure of central tendency
list of numbers that is arranged from smallest to largest or largest to smallest.
Ranked list
a list of numbers is the numbers that occurs most frequently.
mode
is often used when some data values are more important
than others.
weighted mean
data that have not been organized or manipulated in any manner.
Raw Data
table that lists observed events and the frequency of occurrence of each
observed event. Iit is often used to organized raw data
Frequency Distribution
numerical value that measures variation or dispersion or spread of the data values.
Measure of Dispersion
the range of a set of data values is the difference between the greatest data value and the
least data value
Range
numerical value that describes the variation in a data set.
Standard Deviation
– a measure of dispersion of a data set.
Variance
numerical value that describes the position of a data value in a data set.
Measure of Relative Position