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Stat and Business Decision Making Vocabulary Chapter 2

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

in a statistical display, each data value should be represented by the same amount of area

a)

Bar Chart

b)

Pie Chart

c)

Area Principal

d)

Cell

2.

A form of graph in which numeric values are represented by horizontal or vertical rectangles, used to display categorical data.

a)

Contingency Table

b)

Pie Chart

c)

frequency table

d)

Bar Chart

3.

Each location on a contingency table, representing the value of two categorical variables.

a)

unit

b)

cell

c)

row

d)

column

4.

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.

a)

Contingency Table

b)

frequency table

c)

Marginal Distribution

d)

Segmented bar chart

5.

A table that lists the categories in a categorical variable and gives the number of observations for each category.

a)

chart

b)

bar chart

c)

cell

d)

frequency table

6.

Variables for which the conditional distribution of one variable is the same for each category of the other.

a)

categorical variable

b)

cell

c)

independent variable

d)

Simpson's Paradox

7.

Distribution of values of that variable among all individuals described by the table, found in the margin.

a)

row

b)

Contingency Table

c)

relative frequency

d)

marginal distribution

8.

Shows how a "whole" divides into categories by showing a wedge of a circle whose area corresponds to the proportion in each category.

a)

Pie Chart

b)

Line Graph

c)

Bar Chart

d)

Segmented Bar Chart

9.

the proportion of each row contained in the cell of a frequency table

a)

column percent

b)

frequency distribution

c)

cell

d)

row percent

10.

displays the conditional distribution of a categorical variable within each category of another variable

a)

bar chart

b)

pie chart

c)

segmented bar chart

d)

histogram

11.

when averages are taken across different groups, they can appear to contradict the overall averages

a)

Simpson's Paradox

b)

Area Principle

c)

Frequency Distribution

d)

Marginal Distribution