STAT (3rd Grading) Flashcards
It is a mathematical concept used to measure the occurrence of statistical events.
Probability
It is the chance of a certain event will occur or happen.
Probability
A science that studies data to be able to make a decision.
Statistic
A science involves the methods of collecting, processing, summarizing and analyzing data in order to provide answers or solutions to an inquiry.
Statistics
Statistics comes from the latin word
Status
Statistics comes from the italian word
Statistia
Statistics comes from the German word
Statistik
Statistics comes from the French word
Statistique
The word statistics comes from the Latin word “Status” or Italian word “Statistia” or German word “Statistik” or the French word “Statistique”;
political state
provides information only about
collected data and does not draw inferences or conclusions about a larger set of data.
Descriptive Statistics
used when one makes a decision, estimates prediction or generalization about a population based on a sample.
Inferential Statistics
The collection or set of units or entities from whom we got the data.
Universe
Is a characteristic that is observable or measurable in every unit of the universe.
Variable
set of all possible values of a variable.
Population
A subgroup of a universe or of a population.
Sample
The information we asked from the respondents.
Variable
is a characteristic that is observable or measurable in every unit of the universe.
A variable
It is referred to as categorical variables such as:
sex (male or female),
religion,
marital status,
region of residence,
highest educational attainment, etc.
Qualitative
Otherwise called as numerical data, whose sizes are meaningful.
It answer questions such as “how much” or “how many”.
Quantitative
Quantitative data may be classified to as _________ or ___________
Discrete and continuous
are those data that can be counted that includes whole numbers or integers, example: the number of days, the ages of survey respondents, and the number of patients in a hospital.
Discrete
are those that can be measured that includes fractions and decimals, example. height of a survey respondent and the volume of some liquid substance.
Continuous
What are the levels of measurement
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Measurement arises when we have variables that are
categorical and non-numeric or where the numbers have no sense of ordering
Nominal