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| The science of collecting, organizing, summarizing, and analyzing information to draw conclusions or answer questions. In addition, statistics is about providing a measure of confidence in any conclusions |
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| A third variable that influences two variables |
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| The entire group of individual to be studied |
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| A person or object that is a member of the population being studied |
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| A subset of the population that is being studied |
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| A numerical summary of a sample, organizing and summarizing data. |
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| A numerical summary of a sample |
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| Using methods that take a result from a sample, extend it to a population, and measure the reliability of the result |
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| A numerical summary of a population |
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| Characteristics of the individuals within the population |
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| The classification of individuals based on some attribute or characteristic |
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| Numerical measures of individuals where arithmetic operators provide meaningful results |
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| A way to look at and organize a problem so that it can be solved |
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| A quantitative variable that has either a finite number of possible values or a countable number of possible value (counting to get the value) |
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| A quantitative variable that has an infinite number of possible values that are not countable (measuring to get the value) |
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| The list of observed values for a variable |
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| Observations corresponding to a qualitative variable |
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| Observations corresponding to a quantitative variable |
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| Observations corresponding to a discrete variable |
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| Observations corresponding to a continuous variable |
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| Nominal level of measurement |
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| When the values of the variable name, label, or categorize, and the naming scheme does not allow for the values of the variable to be arranged in a ranked or specific order |
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| Ordinal level of measurement |
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| When the values of the variables have the properties of the nominal level and the naming scheme allows for the values of the variable to be arranged in a ranked or specific order |
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| Interval level of measurement |
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| When the values of the variables have the properties of the ordinal level and the differences in the values of the variables having meaning |
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| Ratio level of measurement |
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| When the values of the variables have the properties of the interval level and the ratios of the values of the variables have meaning |
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| Nominal and ordinal levels of measurement are |
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| Interval and ratio levels of measurement are |
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