Funstat vocab 1

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Study of collecting, organizing, and interpreting data

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statistics

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A person or object in the study

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individual

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Characteristic of an individual to be observed or measured

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Variable

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Variable that quantifies (numerical)

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Quantitative variable

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Variable that categorizes or describes

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Qualitative variable

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Every individual of interest

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population

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Subset of the population

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sample

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Data with only names or qualities (non-numerical)

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Nominal data

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Data with order but meaningless value differences.

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Ordinal data

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Data with characteristics of interval data but a meaningful starting point for ratios.

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Ratio data