Vocabulary from Probability and Statistics
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| Population | a group of individuals or objects that you want to study
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| Sample | part of the population
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| Inference | an estimate or prediction about the population that is based on a sample
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| Biased Sample | not representative of the population
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| Median | the "middle" of a data set
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| Mean Absolute Deviation | the average distance between each data value and the mean
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| Mean | the sum of the values in the data set divided by the number of items in the data set
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| Variation | a description of how spread out the data in the set are (includes Range, IQR, and MAD)
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| Distribution | the organization of a data set (shows outliers, clusters, and gaps)
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| Probability | the likelihood that an event is to occur
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| Theoretical probability | the ratio of favorable outcomes to total possible outcomes
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| Experimental probability | the number of times a favorable outcome happens when a probability experiment is actually conducted
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| Compound Event | when two or more events will occur together
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| Independent Event | an event in which the outcome does not depend on the outcome of any other event
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| Dependent Event | an event in which the outcome of the second event depends on the outcome o the first event
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