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WorksheetsStatistics Vocabulary
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
Attribute such as hair color, eye color, religion, favorite movie, gender, and so on.
Quantitative
Procedures
Populations
Qualitative
20 subjects were taken from a population with an equal number
of males and females.
Simple Random Sample
Sample of Convenience
Information
Systematic Sample
Variables such as number of children in a household are
Discrete
Continuous
For example, when classifying people according to their favorite color, there is no sense in which
green is placed “ahead of” blue.
Nominal
Ordinal
A researcher wishing to measure consumers' satisfaction with their microwave
ovens might ask them to specify their feelings as either “very dissatisfied,”
“somewhat dissatisfied,” “somewhat satisfied,” or “very satisfied.”
Nominal
Ordinal
What is measured on each experimental unit?
Outcome
Problems
A sample is typically a small subset of the
Population
Variable
Reason
Values
The ______________ of a class is the average of its lower class limit and the lower class limit of the next class.
Sum
Cumulative
Midpoint
Ogive
______ is really pronounced "Oh, jive" not "OG".
Lower class limit
Upper class limit
Ogive
Frequency
A graph that can be used to give a rough impression of the shape of a data set.
Tally
Frequency
Dot Plot
Relative Frequency
The _________ of a category is the frequency of the category divided by the sum of all the frequencies
Pie Chart
Distribution
Relative Frequency
Bar Graph
A type of bar chart that compares data with the bars touching one another is a _____________.
Pie Chart
Pareto Chart
Histogram
Dot Plot
Is the color of an MP3 player nominal or ordinal?
Nominal
Ordinal
The TV columnist for a local newspaper invites readers to log on to a website to vote for their favorite TV newscaster.
Voluntary response sample
Seed
Ideas
Cluster Sample
