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Stats 1.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Statistics | The science of conducting studies to collect, organize, summarize, analyze, and draw conclusions from data. |
| Variable | A characteristic or attribute that ca assume different values |
| Data | The values that a variable can assume. |
| Population | Consists of all subjects (human or otherwise) that are being studied. |
| Census | When data is collected from very subject in the population. |
| Sample | A group of subjects selected from a population. |
| Descriptive statistics | Consists of the collection, organization, summarization, and presentation of data. |
| Inferential statistics | Consists of generalizing from samples to populations, preforming estimations and hypothesis tests determining relationships among variables, and making predictions. |
| Probability | The chance of an event occurring. |
| Hypothesis testing | The process for evaluating claims about a population, based on information obained from a sample. |