Statistics Vocabulary Population

The practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.

• data

• statistics

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

Concerned with collecting, organizing, summarizing, and presenting data.

• data

• statistics

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

The set of all people or objects whose properties are to be described and analyzed by the data collector.

• population

• sample

• random sample

• representative sample

A collection of data showing the frequency of the occurrences of the available data.

• data item

• data value

• frequency distribution

• frequency

_______ is the entire group of objects or individuals considered for a survey.

• Sample

• Population

• Random Sample

• Quartile

What is the entire group of individuals or instances studied called?

• sample

• population

• class

• experiment

What is the entire group studied called?

• sample

• population

• class

• experiment

The entire group studied.

• sample

• population

Population or Sample? A quality control engineer is curious about the thickness of paint on a car at her factory. She randomly selects 30 points on the car and measures the paint thickness at each of those points.

• Population

• Sample

A sample obtained in such a way that every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected for the sample.

• population

• sample

• random sample

• representative sample