Statistics Flashcards
1
Q
What is primary data
A
Data we collect ourselves
2
Q
What is secondary data
A
Data which has been collected by someone else eg books, Internet etc.
3
Q
What is a variable
A
Something whose value we can measure for each person in a population and it can change from person to person.
4
Q
What is an outlier
A
An item of data which lies far away from the overall pattern of the rest of the data.