Statistics Collecting Data

Descriptive statistics involves...

• collection, presentation, and description of sample data

• the technique of interpreting the values resulting from the descriptive techniques and making decisions and drawing conclusions about the population

• attempting to provide incorrect information and provide misleading graphs

• using information, numbers, and graphics even when data can't be collected

The POPULATION in statistics is best described by...

• a collection, or set, of individuals, objects, or events whose properties are to be analyzed

• the total number of people that live in a particular city

• the incomplete collection of individuals or objects that are of interest to the sample collector

• a collection of people that are being analyzed for membership on a list of particular elements to be studied

A variable (or response variable) is

• a characteristic of interest about each individual element of a population or sample

• a characteristic that is irrelevant to the collection of the data

• a characteristic that changes when the data is collected

• a characteristic or trait that will be ignored in a sample population

A statistic is...

• a planned activity whose results yield a set of data

• a numerical value that summarizes all of the data of an entire population

• the set of values collected from the variable from each of the elements that belong to the sample

• A numerical value summarizing the sample data

Data is...

• a planned activity whose results yield a set of data

• a numerical value that summarizes all of the data of an entire population

• the set of values collected from the variable from each of the elements that belong to the sample

• A numerical value summarizing the sample data

science that consists of collecting, organizing, analyzing and interpreting data

• data

• statistics

• population

• sample

information gathered from observations, surveys and experiments

• data

• population

• sample

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collection of ALL outcomes, responses, measurements or counts

• population

• sample

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• data

collection of a subset of the population

• population

• sample

• parameter

• statistic

number that describes a sample

• statistic

• parameter

• population

• sample