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Primary Data   Data that you collect yourself or is is collected by somewhere under your direct supervision.  
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Secondary Data   Data that has already been collected and made available from an external source.  
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Univariate Data   When one piece of data is collected from each member of the sample.  
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Bivariate Data   When two pieces of data are collected from each member of the sample.  
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Quantitative Data   Data that is counted or measured.  
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Discrete Data   Data that can only take particular values.  
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Continuous Data   Data that can take any value within a range.  
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Qualitative Data   Data that cannot be measured.  
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Categorical Data   Data that can only be described in words and are organised into categories.  
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Ordinal Data   Data that are organised in logical order or ranking.  
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Population   Complete set of data under consideration.  
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Census   A collection of data relating to a population.  
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Sampling Frame   List of every item in a population.  
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Sample   Small part of the population selected.  
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Random Sample   A sample in which every member of the population has an equal chance of being collected.  
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Statistical Inference   Conclusions drawn from a sample that are applied to the whole population.  
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Bias   Anything that distorts data so that they will not give a representative sample.  
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Sample Survey   A survey that collects data from a sample of the population, usually using a questionnaire.  
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Experiment   A controlled study in which the researcher understands the cause-and-effect relationships.  
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Observational Studies   Data obtained by making observations are called observational studies.  
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Designed Experiments   Data obtained from an experiment by counting or measuring.  
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Questionnaire   A set of questions used to obtain data from a population  
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Respondent   Anyone who answers a questionnaire.  
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Measures of Centrality   Mean, Median and Mode.  
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Mean   The sum of all the values of a data set divided by the number of values in the set.  
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Mode   The item that occurs most in a set of data.  
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Median   The middle value in a set of data.  
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Measures of Variability   Range, Standard Deviation and Interquartile Range.  
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Range   highest value - lowest value.  
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Standard Deviation   A measure of deviation from the mean.  
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Interquartile Range   Measure of the values that lie in the 2nd and 3rd quartiles.  
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Histogram   Visual Representation used to represent discrete or continuous data.  
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Back-to-back Stem and Leaf Diagrams   Used to compare two samples by showing the results together on a back-to-back stemplot.  
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Scatter Diagram   Visual Representation used to display the relationship between two variables.  
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Correlation   Used to imply a connection between variables.  
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Line of best fit   A visual representation between a scatter and a trend line.  
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