Intro to Statistics Vocabulary

A teacher puts all her students' names in hat, then selects 3 names from the hat. These students will take a standardized test.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Stratified

• Simple Random

Choose the correct keyword for this definition: A collection of information about a

related topic

• Trend

• Spike

• Dataset

• None

A small group of the total population that you want to survey

• Population

• Sample

• Parameter

• Statistic

A value that describes a sample

• Population

• Sample

• Parameter

• Statistic

What is the word in statistics for any characteristic or attribute of a person, place, or thing?

• variable

• descriptive statistic

• inferential statistic

• parameter

A survey of 1600 women found that the standard deviation of their heights is about 2.6 inches.

Is the standard deviation a parameter or a statistic?

• Parameter

• Statistic

Is the information collected during the survey numerical or categorical data?

• Numerical data. I know this because the y-axis is labeled with numbers. 

• Numerical data. I know this because the surveyor counted how many people that they surveyed. 

• Categorical data. I know this because the responses to the survey are names. 

• Categorical data. I know this because each column is a different color. 

The statistic is a number describing the:

• population

• sample

• survey

• percent