Summer Vocab

Question 1

Statistics

Answer 1

Study of variability

Question 2

Variability

Answer 2

How things are different

Question 3

2 branches of statistics

Answer 3

Inferential and Descriptive

Question 4

Descriptive statistics

Answer 4

Describing the data and only the data

Question 5

Inferential statistics

Answer 5

Drawing conclusions from data

Question 6

Comparing descriptive and inferential

Answer 6

Descriptive is about data, inferential is about the population

Question 7

Data

Answer 7

Any collected information

Question 8

Population

Answer 8

Group of interest

Question 9

Sample

Answer 9

Subset of population

Question 10

Comparing populations and samples

Answer 10

Populations are whole, sample subset

Question 11

Comparing data to statistics

Answer 11

Data is each piece of info, info from samples are statistics

Question 12

Comparing data to parameters

Answer 12

Data is each piece of info, parameters are from populations

Question 13

Parameter

Answer 13

Numerical summary of population

Question 14

Statistic

Answer 14

Numerical summary of sample

Question 15

Census

Answer 15

Sample of entire population, usually only feasible of small populations