Stat and Business Decision Making Vocabulary Chapter 2

in a statistical display, each data value should be represented by the same amount of area

• Bar Chart

• Pie Chart

• Area Principal

• Cell

A form of graph in which numeric values are represented by horizontal or vertical rectangles, used to display categorical data.

• Contingency Table

• Pie Chart

• frequency table

• Bar Chart

Each location on a contingency table, representing the value of two categorical variables.

• unit

• cell

• row

• column

Displays counts and, sometimes, percentages of individuals falling into named categories on two or more variables; categorizes the individuals on all variables at once, to reveal possible patterns in one variable that may be contingent on the category of the other.

• Contingency Table

• frequency table

• Marginal Distribution

• Segmented bar chart

A table that lists the categories in a categorical variable and gives the number of observations for each category.

• chart

• bar chart

• cell

• frequency table

Variables for which the conditional distribution of one variable is the same for each category of the other.

• categorical variable

• cell

• independent variable

• Simpson's Paradox

Distribution of values of that variable among all individuals described by the table, found in the margin.

• row

• Contingency Table

• relative frequency

• marginal distribution

Shows how a "whole" divides into categories by showing a wedge of a circle whose area corresponds to the proportion in each category.

• Pie Chart

• Line Graph

• Bar Chart

• Segmented Bar Chart

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CCSS.7.RP.A.2

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the proportion of each row contained in the cell of a frequency table

• column percent

• frequency distribution

• cell

• row percent

displays the conditional distribution of a categorical variable within each category of another variable

• bar chart

• pie chart

• segmented bar chart

• histogram