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Unit 4 Math Quiz
Unit 4 Math Study Ca
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| variable | an unknown piece of information that can be changed/varied |
| independent | the horizontal axis also known the x axis. This information gathered is unaffected by the amount of information gathered. This is considered the input value. |
| dependent | the vertical axis is also called the y axis. This information is considered the output value and it depends on an input values (the independent values) |
| Frequency | refers to how often an event occurs |
| Linear | the data follows the pattern of a line |
| nonlinear | the data is not represented in a linear pattern |
| slope | the slope of a line describes how steep the line is and if it positive (rising) or negative (falling) |
| correlation | a statistical method used to determine if there is a connection or relationship between two or more sets of data |
| positive correlation | correlation appears as data trending in a linear pattern with a positive slope (rising slope) |
| negative correlation | appears as data trending in a negative slope (declining slope) |
| no correlation | data no recognizable pattern |
| The Line of Best Fit | also called a trend line is a line that be drawn through the data of a scatter plot that represents most of the data; how the data is trending. Typically, a line of best fit is only drawn when there is a correlation between data points. |
| Outliers | data points that don’t quite fit with the majority of data |