Common Stat 151 Terms to know
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| What is statistics | a way of reasoning and a collecting of tools and methods that help us comprehend the world OR particular calculations made from data
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| What is Data | values (numbers, record names, labels) along with their context
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| Who | the individual cases about whom or which the data is from
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| Respondents | Individuals who answer a survey
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| Subjects / Participants | People on whom we experiment on
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| Experimental Units | Animals, Plants, inanimate subjects
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| Variables | Characteristics recorded about each individual
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| What | determines the variable that has been measured, some have units Ex. Mass, Time, Distance
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| Categorical or Qualitative Variables | Quality of something, uses words Ex. sex, race, ethnicity
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| Quantitative variables | Comes with a unit of measurement Ex. Income ($), Height (inches), weight (pound)
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| Ordinal variables | Rank or data in terms of degree
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| Indentifier Variables | categorical variables with one invidual in each category Ex SIN, FedEx tracking number, ISBN
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| Why | why the data is useful
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| trial | sequence of events we want to investigate
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| component | building blocks of a simulation
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