Stats: Modeling the World - Chapters 1 & 2 Vocabulary

Numbers, characters, images, or other items that provide information about something

• Records

• Data

• Sample

• Population

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5B

A way of reasoning, along with a collection of tools and methods, designed to help us understand the world

• Statistics

• Simulation

• Bar chart

• Data table

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

The who, what, when, where, and why that helps discern what values are measured and on whom they are measured.

• Sample

• Cases

• Statistics

• Context

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5B

An arrangement of data in which each row represents a case and each column represents a variable

• Frequency table

• Experimental unit

• Data table

• Statistics

Someone who answers a survey

• Respondent

• Subject

• Case

• Sample

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5B

A human experimental unit

• Respondent

• Sample

• Subject

• Populations

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

An individual in a study for whom or for which data values are recorded

• Case

• Experimental Unit

• Record

• Variable

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5B

Information about an individual in a database

• Variable

• Sample

• Context

• Record

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5B

A "placeholder" for information about the same characteristic for many cases

• Unit

• Context

• Variable

• Subject

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5B

The actual cases that are examined in seeking to apply to the larger population

• Sample

• Units

• Cases

• Records

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5B