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TwoMinStats
statistical words of vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Total amount of people in a given place | Population |
| A poll choosing very specific people or groups | Stratified Samples |
| Sample that doesn't fully represent a population | Biased Sample |
| Choosing people who will likely agree with you | Cherry Picking |
| When people who don't respond to a poll are not included in the results | Non-Response Bias |
| People who volunteer to be included and are likely to be biased | Self-Selected sample |
| interviewing someone in person | Face to Face interviews |
| Can be completed in one's spare time, cheaper, anonymity resulting in more honest results. | Self Administered Surveys |
| Samples chosen from random people with equal chances of being chosen | Random Samples |
| Describes the center of a distribution | Measure of Central Tendency |
| Lists a group of data, and the number of times each value appears in the data set. | Frequency Distribution Table |
| Data listed in a distribution table | Ungrouped Data |
| Data placed in intervals | Grouped Data |