WorksheetsStat and Business Decision Making Vocabulary Chapter 2
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 8mins
in a statistical display, each data value should be represented by the same amount of area
Bar Chart
Pie Chart
Area Principal
Cell
A form of graph in which numeric values are represented by horizontal or vertical rectangles, used to display categorical data.
Contingency Table
Pie Chart
frequency table
Bar Chart
Each location on a contingency table, representing the value of two categorical variables.
unit
cell
row
column
Displays counts and, sometimes, percentages of individuals falling into named categories on two or more variables; categorizes the individuals on all variables at once, to reveal possible patterns in one variable that may be contingent on the category of the other.
Contingency Table
frequency table
Marginal Distribution
Segmented bar chart
A table that lists the categories in a categorical variable and gives the number of observations for each category.
chart
bar chart
cell
frequency table
Variables for which the conditional distribution of one variable is the same for each category of the other.
categorical variable
cell
independent variable
Simpson's Paradox
Distribution of values of that variable among all individuals described by the table, found in the margin.
row
Contingency Table
relative frequency
marginal distribution
Shows how a "whole" divides into categories by showing a wedge of a circle whose area corresponds to the proportion in each category.
Pie Chart
Line Graph
Bar Chart
Segmented Bar Chart
the proportion of each row contained in the cell of a frequency table
column percent
frequency distribution
cell
row percent
displays the conditional distribution of a categorical variable within each category of another variable
bar chart
pie chart
segmented bar chart
histogram
when averages are taken across different groups, they can appear to contradict the overall averages
Simpson's Paradox
Area Principle
Frequency Distribution
Marginal Distribution
