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STAT100
Statistics 100 final
Term | Definition |
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Categorical Data | The color of hair is an example of this type of data |
Continuous Random Variable | Height of a 15 year old Oak tree is an example of variable type of variable |
Distribution | The variable value and how often it occurs |
Law of Large Numbers | As the number of observations drawn increases, the sample mean of the observed values gets closer and closer to the mean mu of the population is an example of this law |
Population | The entire group of individuals to be studied |
Parameter | A descriptive measure of a population |
P-value | Probability of a Type I error based on your sample producing a mean as far or further in the tail end |
Sample | A subset of the population ( often used in analyses because getting access to the entire population in impractical) |
Significance level, alpha | Probability of type I error |
Statistic | A descriptive measures of a sample |
Statistical Inference/ Inferential Statistics | Using Information from a sample to draw conclusion about a population |