Classifying Data Statistics

science that consists of collecting, organizing, analyzing and interpreting data

• data

• statistics

• population

• sample

information gathered from observations, surveys and experiments

• data

• population

• sample

• stats

collection of ALL outcomes, responses, measurements or counts

• population

• sample

• stats

• data

collection of a subset of the population

• population

• sample

• parameter

• statistic

number that describes the population

• population

• statistic

• parameter

• sample

number that describes a sample

• statistic

• parameter

• population

• sample

branch of stats that organizes, summarizes and displays data

• descriptive

• inferential

branch of stats that draws conclusions

• descriptive

• inferential

implies none

• inherent zero

• ratio

• interval

• ordinal

data that is attributes, labels or non numerical

• qualitative

• quanitative