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Ch 1
Ch1
Term | Definition |
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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 |