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Describing graphs, spread..etc.

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When would you use a bar graph?   When you have categorical Data  
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What is important about the shape of a bar graph?   It doesn't have one with respect to skewness..etc.  
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When would you use a histogram?   Greater than 40 numbers  
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When would use use a stem-plot or a dot-plot?   Less than 40 numbers  
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What two computed values are never apart? Correlation, mean, average, median, standard deviation   Mean and Standard Deviation  
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What is the first thing you do when you see quantitative data?   Plot it.  
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What are the three properties of a histogram?   Shape, Center, and Spread  
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What is always on the x axis of a scatter-plot?   The explanatory variable  
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What is always o the y axis of a scatter-plot?   The response variable  
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What is a lurking variable?   A third variable that has a strong impact on the other vvariables, but is not measured at this time...  
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What are the three things you need to know when data is symmetric?   mean=median, bell shaped, follows 68-95-99.7 rule  
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What is the symbolic representation of Normal distribution?   N(mean, S.D.)  
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Define: Variable   Any characteristic of the objects we study  
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What are the important characteristics of a graph?   There must be space between the vertical bars, each vertical bar represents a category, the height of a bar shows the quantity in that category or the percent of total. Also, segmented bar graphs exist  
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What are stem-plots used as opposed to dot-plots?   When you want to see all the numerical data  
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Tell me about stem-plots:   They have a leaf (tens digit) and a stem (ones digit), for data you want to see, from smallest to largest, a title, four or more stems=split them  
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Define: Shape   symetric or skewed, single or multiple peaks  
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Define: Center   middle of data  
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Spread   The highest or lowest values for the main part of data? Any Outliers  
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Why is the median better than the mean?   Because it is robust to outliers  
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When would you use the mean over the median?   When the data is symetric.  
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How do you measure the spread in data?   Using an average deviation  
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What does the average deviation measure?   The distance of a value from the mean  
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What is the relationship between spread and standard deviation?   The greater the spread of data the higher the standard deviation  
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What does the five number summary consist of?   # the minimum (smallest observation)# the lower quartile or first quartile (which cuts off the lowest 25% of the data)# the median (middle value)# the upper quartile or third quartile (which cuts off the highest 25% of the data)# the maximum  
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What is association?   The relationship of two variables. Measures the form, direction, and strength (correlation)  
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When would one use scatterplots?   When there are two quantitative variables  
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What should one do looking at a scatterplot?   Look for the overall pattern, describe the pattern by form, direction, and strength, and look for outliers  
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What is the symbolic representation of the correlation?   r  
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What does correlation measure?   Measures how strong the linear relationship between two variables is.  
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What are some conditions for correlation?   It has no units, between -1 to 1, the closer the correlation to 0, the weaker the linear relationshiop  
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How many decimal placese in a mean?   1 More Decimal place than the data  
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S.D. decimal places?   two more than data  
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Z-score   Two decimals  
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percent decimal places   At least one  
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What is the formula for a Z-score   write out  
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What is the symbol for S.D.   Mu  
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What is the symbol for mean?   Sigma  
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What is a normal distribution:   Symetric with a single peak, the distinguishing characteristics between two normal distributions are the mean and s.d.  
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