Collecting Statistical Data

What is a population?

• A tool used to collect statistical data

• Statistics collected from an entire population

• All the people or objects on which data is collected

• A group chosen from a population

What is a census?

• A tool used to collect statistical data
• Statistics collected from an entire population
• The factual information collected from a survey or other source 
• A group chosen from a population

What is a survey?

• process of collecting statistical data from a small group of a population

• Statistics collected from an entire population

• An element or feature that can vary

• A person chosen from a population

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What is statistics?

• The science of collecting and analysing data

• Statistics collected from an entire population

• An element or feature that can vary

• A group chosen from a population

What is data?

• The practise of collecting and analysing data
• The factual information collected from a survey or other source 
• An element or feature that can vary
• A group chosen from a population

What is a sample?

• A tool used to collect statistical data

• Statistics collected from an entire population

• The factual information collected from a survey or other source

• A subgroup chosen from a population

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

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Questioning students as they leave a university library, a researcher asks 358 students about their drinking habits.

This is what type of sample?

• cluster

• convenience

• systematic

• stratified

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Chosen at random, 580 customers at a car dealership are contacted and asked their opinions of the service they received.
This is what type of sample?

• convenience
• stratified
• simple random sample
• cluster

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys, so she randomly selects five students from the class to survey, paying no attention to their gender.
This is a form of:

• Cluster Sampling
• Systematic Sampling
• Stratified Sampling
• Simple Random Sampling

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

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A poll about favorite sports is taken from 100 seniors in a high school where the senior class has 575 students. 23% of respondents said that baseball was their favorite sport.
The "100" is the ______

• Sample Size
• Population Size
• Statistic
• Parameter

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4