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Ch 1
Ch1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Statistics | Science of collecting, organizing, summarizing, analyzing information |
| Population | entire group of individuals |
| Sample | subset of the population |
| Descriptive Statistics | organizing and summarizing data |
| Inferential Statistics | a result from a sample |
| Parameter | numerical summary of a population |
| Qualitative, or categorical variables | classification based on attributed characteristic |
| Quantitative variables | numerical measures of individuals such as arithmetic operations |
| Discrete variable | countable as in gender |
| continuous variable | measurement as in height |
| Validity | how close to the true value the measurements is |
| Reliability | ability of different measurements of the same individual to yield the same results |