Unit 10 Vocabulary Data

to ask many people the same questions in order to gather data

• trend

• outlier

• survey

• scale

a relationship between two sets of data that shows up as a pattern in a scatterplot

• trend

• outlier

• scale

a value that is much greater or much less than the other values in a data set

• survey

• trend

• outlier

the system of marks at fixed intervals

• scale

• scatterplot

• survey

a graph made by plotting points on a coordinate plane to show the relationship between two values in a set of data

• stem and leaf plot

• scatterplot

• frequency

a display of data in which digits with larger place values are named as stems and digits with smaller place values are named as leaves

• scatterplot

• stem and leaf plot

• frequency

the number of times an event happens

• frequency

• scale

• outlier

a table listing each value that appears in a data set followed by the number of times it appears (not all frequency tables include tally marks)

• numerical data

• frequency table

• bar graph

values that can be counted or measured and placed in order such as dollars earned or minutes spent on homework

• categorical data

• continuous data

• numerical data

observations that can be sorted into groups or categories such as shoe colors or favorite vegetables

• categorical data

• numerical data

• continuous data