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7M Unit 5 vocabulary
probability terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Categorical Data | data that consists of non numeric information |
| Chance Event | the outcome or set of outcomes of an experiment |
| Data Distribution | a graphical representation of data that was collected |
| Experimental Probability | the ratio of the number of times an event occurs to the total number of trials, or times that the activity is performed |
| Interquartile Range | the difference between the upper and lower quartiles in a box-and-whisker plot |
| Mean | the sum of the items in a set of data divided by the number of items in the set; also called average |
| Mean Absolute Deviation | the mean distance between each data value and the mean of the data set |
| Measures of Center | a measure used to describe the middle of a data set; mean, median, and mode |
| Median | the middle number, or the mean (average) of the two middle numbers, in an ordered set of data |
| Numerical Data | data that consists of numerical information |
| Outcome | a possible result of a probability experiment |
| Probability | a number from 0 to 1 (or 0% to 100%) that describes how likely an event is to occur |
| Quantitative | data represented numerically, including anything that can be counted, measured, or given a numerical value |
| Range | the difference between the greatest and least values in a data set |
| Simple Events | an event consisting of only one outcome |
| Theoretical Probabilities | the ratio of the number of ways an event can occur to the total number of equally likely outcomes |