Individuals Variables Statistics

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

• variable

• descriptive statistic

• inferential statistic

• parameter

What are characteristics that are defined by a number, such as age or weight?

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• categorical variables

• numerical variables

What is the term in statistics for the entire collection or group of individuals being studied?

• population

• sample

• parameter

• statistic

What is the branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data?

• Algebra

• Geometry

• Probability

• Statistics

What is a quantitative variable that could have an infinite number of values?

• categorical variable

• qualitative variable

• discrete variable

• continuous variable

What is a smaller, representative group drawn from a population?

• unit

• sample

• parameter

• statistic

What is a characteristic of a sample?

• parameter

• statistic

• categorical variable

• numerical variable

According to this article, what is STATISTICS?

• Statistics is the universal language of the sciences that involves information, numbers, visual graphics to summarize information and its interpretation. In other words, the science of collecting, describing, and interpreting data.

• Statistics is a method of analyzing and collecting data that is not easily visible and must be described by using mathematics and other sciences.

• Statistics is using data, concluding data and making inferential theories from the information that has a positive normal distribution.

• Statistics involves using information, numbers, and descriptive conclusions to help businesses make corrective business decisions based on the descriptive techniques that create perfect graphs.

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