Statistics Vocabulary

What term describes the number of times a particular value occurs in a data set?

• frequency

• quantity

• repetition

• occurrence

Which type of data can only take specific values and cannot be measured?

• Ordinal data

• Categorical data

• Numerical data

• Continuous data

What type of data can take any value within a given range?

• Ordinal data

• Continuous data

• Discrete data

• Categorical data

What type of graph uses bars to represent the frequency of data values?

• Line graph

• Pie chart

• Scatter plot

• Bar graph

Which term refers to data that is numerical and can be measured?

• Quantitative data

• Qualitative data

• Categorical data

• Ordinal data

What type of data is descriptive and cannot be measured numerically?

• Measured data

• Numeric data

• Quantitative data

• Qualitative data

What term describes the total frequency up to a certain value in a data set?

• Cumulative frequency

• Accumulated frequency

• Total frequency

• Aggregated frequency

What branch of statistics deals with summarizing and describing data?

• Descriptive statistics

• Inferential statistics

• Prescriptive statistics

• Predictive statistics

What type of statistics focuses on organizing, summarizing, and presenting data?

• Inferential Statistics

• Predictive Statistics

• Descriptive Statistics

• Prescriptive Statistics

What term refers to the sum of the frequencies up to and including a certain value in a data set?

• Cumulative frequency

• Accumulated frequency

• Total frequency

• Aggregated frequency