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Statistics
Maths
Term | Definition |
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Primary data | Is data collected by an individual or organisation for their own use |
Secondary data | this is already available or has been collected by somebody else for a different purpose |
Ordinal categorical data | Can be ordered in some way |
Nominal categorical data | Cannot be ordered |
The population | is the entire group that is being studied |
A sample | is a group that is selected from the population |
A questionnaire | is a set of questions designed to obtain data from the population |
A stem and leaf plot | represents numerical data by seperating each piece of data into two parts: the stem and the leaf |
The mode | a set values is the value that occurs most often |
The median | of a data set is the middle value after the data has been ranked |
An outlier | is an observation that lies an abnormal distance from other values in a data set |