Statistics Flashcards

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What is data

A

An unordered list

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What is statistics

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Statistics is the branch of maths dealing with collecting and recording data

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How do we make it into info

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Order it

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What is the cycle of handling data

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Pose a question
Collect data
Analyse the data
Interpret the results

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4
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What are the two types of data

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Numerical and categorical

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What are the two types of numerical data

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Discrete and continues

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What are the two types of categorical data

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Nominal and ordinal

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7
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What is numerical data

A

Questions that can be answered with numbers

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What is categorical data

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Questions that can be answered in words

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What are some examples of numerical discrete data

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Goal scores
Numbers on a die
No. Of people ina family
Shoes size

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What are some examples of numerical continues data

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Weight
Temperature
Time.
Pressure

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What are some examples of categorical nominal Data

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(Can’t be ordered)
Hobbies
Place names
Colours

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What are some examples of categorical ordinal data

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(Can be ordered)
Exam grades
House no,
Position in a race

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What’s the mean

A

The average

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What is the mode

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The no. That apperars the most amount of times

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What is the median q

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The idle no. When listed in order

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What is the range

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Highest no. - lowest no.

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What are bar charts q

A

A simple but effective way of displaying data bar charts consist of a series of bars of the same width seperated by narrow gaps of equal width

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What is a steam and leaf plot

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It’s a way of showing data that it gives you the origin,a data and gives you the overall picture of that shows you the shape of the data
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