Statistics Key Terms

What is the science of collecting, organizing and representing data?

• Sample size 
• statistics
• data
• statistical question

What type of question has many awnsers?

• Statistical 
• Non-statistical

What kind of question has one right answer?

• Non-statistical
• Statistical

What do you call information that is often numbers?

• statistics
• data
• sample size
• data distribution 

What do you call the number of people asked a question?

• data
• mode
• sample size
• data point

What do you call organized data?

• data distribution 
• data
• stuff
• statistics

What are the measures of center?

• Mean, median and mode
• MAD, IQR and range

What do you call the average in in the measure of center? 

• Mean
• median 
• mode
• MAD

What is the exact middle of a set of data?

• mean
• mode
• median
• range

What do you call the number that  occurs the most? 

• mode
• median 
• mean
• IQR