Statistical Evaluation of Data Flashcards
What are descriptive statistics?
Statistical methods used to organize, summarize, and simplify the results from research studies
What are inferential statistics?
Statistical methods used to determine when it is appropriate to generalize the results from a sample to an entire population
What is a summary value that describes a population called?
A parameter
What is frequency distribution?
An organized display of a set of scores that shows how many scores are located in each category on the scale of measurement
What is the goal of central tendency?
To identify the value that is most typical or most representative of the group
How is standard deviation calculated?
The average distance from the mean, obtained by taking the square root of sample variance
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