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Define population

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Population- complete collection of people or items

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Define sample

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Sample- part of population- as ✖️ possible to gather data about every individual in population … sample used to gather info which is used to draw conclusions about population

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How many types of sampling are there?

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What is simple random sampling?

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Simple random sampling- sampling method in which items in sample chosen by random process e.g. drawing names from 🎩- every member of population has equal chance of being selected

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What is opportunity sampling?

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Opportunity sampling- choosing individuals for sample as opportunity arises e.g. interviewing passers-by

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What is systematic sampling?

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Systematic sampling- select individuals from population using systematic method e.g. selecting every 10th person on list of population

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What is stratified sampling?

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Stratified sampling- used when population can be divided into subgroups (strata) using criteria e.g. age or gender 👨 👩 and ensures all strata represented in sample

  • Sometimes requirement that numbers sampled from each stratum is proportional to sizes of the strata (proportional stratified sampling)
  • Otherwise, weighting used
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What is quota sampling?

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Quota sampling- can also be used when population can be divided into strata- certain number of items from each stratum are required

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What is cluster sampling?

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Cluster sampling- used when population consists of subgroups which are each reasonably representative of population (e.g. year 6 classes in several schools)- sample taken from just a few of these subgroups

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What is self selected/volunteer sampling?

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Self-selected sampling- individuals choose to be part of sample e.g. survey posted on internet

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Which sampling techniques are prone to bias?

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1) Opportunity sampling
2) Self-selected sampling
- sample unlikely to be representative of population

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What is a good thing about larger samples?

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Larger samples usually ⬆️ representative of population than smaller samples

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What are the types of sampling?

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1) Simple random
2) Opportunity
3) Systematic
4) Stratified
5) Quota
6) Cluster
7) Self selected/volunteer

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How many types of data are there?

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3

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What are statistical diagrams?

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Statistical diagrams used to illustrate data

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What are types of data?

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1) Categorical
2) Discrete
3) Continuous

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What are bar charts?

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Bar charts 📊 show frequencies for each item of data

  • height of bar equal to frequency
  • unlike histograms gaps between bars- indicates discrete data
  • 📊 often used for categorical data
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What is a dot plot?

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Dot plot- similar to bar chart📊 but uses stacks of dots to represent frequency

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What is a vertical line chart?

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Vertical line chart- similar to bar chart 📊 BUT uses vertical lines instead of bars
- ⬆️ appropriate than 📊 to show numerical 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ data

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What is a histogram?

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Histogram- used to illustrate grouped data

  • vertical axis gives frequency density (frequency ➗ class width)
  • frequency for each group proportional to area of bars
  • no gaps between the bars
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What is a frequency chart?

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Frequency chart- similar to histogram BUT has equal width bars and its vertical axis gives frequency

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What is a stem and leaf diagram?

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Stem-and-leaf diagram- used for numerical data

  • stem indicates groups of data
  • leaves give actual data
  • shows shape of distribution in same way as bar chart, dot plot or vertical line graph does BUT includes actual raw data
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What is a pie chart?

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Pie 🥧 chart- used for categorical data.

- frequencies of data items displayed as sectors of a circle ⭕️ with angle in each sector proportional to frequency

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How many ways can data be distributed?

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5

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What is a box and whisker diagram?
Box-and-whisker diagram (boxplot)- summarises numerical data by showing lowest value, lowest quartile, median, upper quartile and highest value
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What is a cumulative frequency curve?
Cumulative frequency curve- graph illustrating numerical data - cumulative frequency curve useful for estimating values of median, quartiles or other percentiles
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How many statistical diagrams are there?
9
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What are the types of distribution of data?
1) Positively skewed 2) Negatively skewed 3) Symmetrical 4) Unimodal 5) Bimodal
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What is positively skewed data?
Right-hand tail to distribution | - median closer to lower quartile than to upper quartile
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What is negatively skewed data?
left-hand tail to distribution | - median closer to upper quartile than lower quartile
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What is symmetrical data?
Peak of data approximately in centre and distribution looks reasonably symmetrical - mean and the median will be close together
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What is unimodal data?
A unimodal distribution has 1 peak
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What is bimodal data?
A bimodal distribution has 2 distinct peaks
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How many measures of central tendency are there?
3
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What are the measures of central tendency?
1) Mean 2) Median 3) Mode
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What is the mean?
Found by ➕ up data items and ➗ by number of data items
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What is the mode?
Most frequently occurring data value
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How many measures of variation are there?
4
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What is the median?
Midpoint of data when placed in numerical order
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How do calculate the variance?
SEE MATHS WORD DOC CALLED GRAPHS TO KNOW
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What is the range?
Difference between highest and lowest values from data
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How do you calculate the standard deviation?
Square root of standard deviation | SEE MATHS WORD DOC CALLED GRAPHS TO KNOW
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What is the interquartile range?
Difference between upper quartile (3/4 of data when ranked numerically) and lower quartile (1/4 of data when ranked numerically)
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What is the variance?
Variance- measure of spread of sample of data
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What is standard deviation?
Average distance of each data item from mean
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What must you remember with scatter diagrams and the type of population they represent?
Sometimes scatter diagram show data falling in 2 or ⬆️ groups These may represent different sections of population (e.g. adults 🧑 and children 👶) ... may ✖️ be appropriate to treat data as single set
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What are the measures of variation?
1) Range 2) IQR 3) Variance 4) Standard deviation
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What is bivariate data?
Data which involves 2 variables, e.g. height and weight
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How can you illustrate bivariate data?
Illustrated on scatter diagram in which axes represent the 2 variables and each data item is plotted using coordinates
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What can you infer once you have plotted bivariate data on a scatter diagram?
If bivariate data plotted on scatter diagram fall close to straight line = linear correlation (the closer the data lie to the line, the 💪 the correlation) If line has ➕ gradient = ➕ correlation If line has ➖ gradient = ➖ correlation If all data lies on line = perfect linear correlation
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What is important to remember about causation and correlation?
Correlation ✖️ imply causation (cause and effect ✖️ be established between 2 co-variables which show a correlation)
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What is association?
Relationship between variables which is not linear
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What is an outlier?
Unusually ⬆️ or ⬇️ value in set of data
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How many definitions of outliers are there?
2
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What is categorical data?
Categorical data- ✖️ numerical in value (e.g. colours of cars)
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What is discrete data?
Discrete data- numerical data- can take only specific values e.g. shoe 👞 sizes or number of pets 🐕
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What is continuous data?
Continuous data- numerical data- can take any real values in a range e.g. weights or times ⏰
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How can you define outliers in a set of data?
1) Any data value which is ⬆️ than 2 standard deviations away from mean 2) Any data value which is ⬆️ than 1.5 times the IQR above the upper quartile or below the lower quartile
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What is cleaning data?
Cleaning data involves dealing with missing data, errors and outliers
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What is a sample space?
Set of all possible outcomes of a trial or experiment
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What does P( A U B) mean?
‘probability that either event A occurs, or event B occurs (or both)’
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What does P( A n B) mean?
‘probability that both event A and event B occur’
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What are mutually exclusive events?
2 events are mutually exclusive if it is impossible for them to occur together
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How can you confirm if 2 events are mutually exclusive?
If two events are mutually exclusive, then | P(A U B) = P(A) + P(B)
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What are independent events?
2 events A and B are independent if whether or not A occurs has ✖️ effect on whether or not B occurs
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How can you confirm if 2 events are independent?
If events A and B are independent, then | P(A n B) = P(A) ✖️ P(B)
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What are the 4 main steps of hypothesis testing?
1) State the X (squiggly line) B (n,p) 2) State the null and alternate hypothesis ... decide whether 1 or 2 tail 3) State your test statistic (e.g. number of sixes obtained in the 50 spins) 4) Note the significance level
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What is the critical region?
Set of values for test statistic X for which you would reject null hypothesis
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What is the critical value?
Value of X for which you change from accepting null hypothesis to rejecting it - critical region includes critical value
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What is the acceptance region?
Range of values of X for which you would accept the null hypothesis
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What must you remember about a hypothesis test?
Remember that result of hypothesis test ✖️ ‘prove’ anything! You can always have unusual results from a sample, that are not representative of the population
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How does the p-value or the critical region/value determine if you accept or reject the null hypothesis?
If your p-value is ⬇️ than the significance level, (alternatively, your test statistic lies in the critical region), you reject H0 (null hypothesis) and accept alternate hypothesis If your p-value is ⬆️ than the significance level, (alternatively, your test statistic lies outside critical region), you accept H0 (null hypothesis) and reject alternate hypothesis
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What MUST you remember about the conclusion of an hypothesis test?
Always give your conclusion in terms of the original problem- CONTEXT
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How do calculate the median ?? COMPLETE
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