Stats Reviewer Glossary of Terms

Characteristics of object or property of element.

Distribution of assigned probabilities associated with a discrete random variable.

Random variables where the observed numerical values are produced by counting and assumes whole numbers only.

Random variables where the observed numerical values are results of measuring and may take on any numbers contained within any numerical intervals.

An organized tabulation of assigned probabilities associated with outcomes of a random variable.

An equation that defines the relationship between an outcome and its associated probability.

The ratio of frequency of occurrences relative to the total number of occurrences.

A function that assigns a numerical value to each outcome of an experiment.

The percentage variability of the mean.

A parameter or a population characteristic that describes the center or common data in the distribution.