Prob_Stats_MC_Definitions

The science and art of collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data.

The steps involved in solving statistics problems, including 1) ask questions, 2) collect data, 3) analyze data, and 4) interpret results.

A person, animal, or thing described in a set of data.

Any attribute that can take different values for different individuals.

A variable that takes values that are labels, which place each individual into a particular group, called a category.

A variable that takes number values that are quantities - counts or measurements.

Tells what values a variable takes and how often it takes these values.

Table that shows the number of individuals having each data value.

Table that shows the proportion or percent of individuals having each value.

A graph that shows each category as a bar. The heights of the bars show the category frequencies or relative frequencies.