stats Flashcards
is a branch of applied mathematics which deals with the collection organization presentation analysis and interpretation off data.
Statistics
develop and apply appropriate methods in collecting and analyzing data.
Statisticians
- deals with the collection and presentation of data and collection of summarizing values
to describe its group characteristics. - The most common summarizing values are the measures of central tendency and variation.
Descriptive Statistics
- deals with predictions and inferences based on the analysis and interpretation of the results of information gathered by the statistician.
Inferential Statistics
is a numerical characteristics or attributes associated with a population being studied.
variable
is a numerical characteristics or attributes associated with a population being studied.
variable
are classified according to some attributes or categories.
Categorical or Qualitative Variables
are variables that are classified according to numerical characteristics such as height, age, number of children and speed.
Numerical Valued or Quantitative Variables
Numerical-valued variables are also classified in two groups.
Discrete
Continuous
variable whose values are obtained by counting.
Discrete
is a variable whose values are obtained by measuring such as temperature distance area density age height weight all of which cannot be put into a list because they can have any value in some interval of real numbers.
Continuous