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Bus 210 chapter 2
Business 210 GMU - chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Observation | list of all variable values for a single member of a population |
| Data set | a rectangular array of data with variables in columns, observations in rows, and variable names in the top row |
| Population | includes all objects of interest ina study |
| sample | representative subset of population usually chosen randomly |
| Variable | attribute or measurement of members of a population |
| Data type | numerical vs. categorical, discrete vs. continuous, cross-sectional vs time series; categorical can be nominal or ordinal |
| categorical variable is Ordinal if what ? | there is a natural ordering of its possible categories |
| categorical variable is Nominal if what ? | there is NO natural ordering of its possible categories |
| Dummy variable | a variable coded 1 or 0; 1 for observations in a category, 0 for observations not in the category |
| Binned variable | Numerical variable that has been categorized into discrete categories called bins |
| Mean | average of the observations; AVERAGE in excel |
| Median | Middle observation after sorting |
| Mode | most frequent observation |
| Percentiles | Values that have specified percentages of observations below them |
| Quartiles | Values that have 25%, 50%, or 75% of observations below them |
| Minimum | Smallest observation |
| Maximum | Largest Observation |
| Range | Difference between largest and smallest observation |
| Interquartile range (IQR) | Difference between first and third quartiles |
| Variance | Measure of variability; the average of squared deviations from the mean |
| Standard Deviation | measure of variability in the same units as observations; square root of variance |
| Empirical Rules | 68% are within one standard deviation of the mean 95% are within two standard deviation of the mean 99.7% are within three standard deviation of the mean |
| Mean absolute Deviation | average of absolute deviation from the mean. |
| range | The max - the min |