Acronyms
Parameters/Statistics
Sampling Methods
Vocabulary
Random
100

The acronym used to describe a scatterplot

What is DUFS?
100

Symbol for sample standard deviation

What is S?

100

The sampling method that commonly involves the words "every kth" 

What is Systematic Random Sampling?

100

The exact middle value of a number set.

What is median?

100

The probability of getting heads on a fair coin. 

What is 0.5?

200

The letters contained in the acronym SUCS

What is Shape, Unusual Features, Center, and Spread?

200

This measures how far a statistic tends to fall from the parameter due to variability

What is sampling variabiltiy?

200

The sampling method that requires every individual and group of individuals in a population to have the exact same probability of being chosen for the sample.

What is a Simple Random Sample?

200

The term used to measure the steepness of a line in a regression model

What is slope?

200

A distribution with a long tail to the right is described as this.

What is right-skewed?

300

The acronym that has a mathematical operation in it 

What is RAP? 

300

The type of symbols you would put in your hypotheses

What are parameters?

300

The sampling method you would have to do when an SRS isn't appropriate

What is a Stratified Random Sample?

300

The type of probability distribution that has a fixed number of trials

What is a binomial distribution?

300

The equation that represents the least-squares regression line. Hint *Be Specific*

What is y-hat = a + b(x-hat)?

400

The description for this boxplot:

What is the distribution is skewed-left with a median of 31 and a range of 10 with no unusual outliers?

400

All of the statistics for a 5-number summary.

What is Minimum, Q1, Median, Q3, Maximum.

400

The step you would have to take after doing a cluster sample

What is a census?

400

An element in an experiment that is designed to look and feel exactly like a real treatment and is most commonly used to help researchers measure the true effectiveness of a treatment

What is placebo?

400

The z* for a 90% confidence interval.

What is 1.645?
500

The acronym you would use to verify the conditions to this problem:

 
A certain basketball player has a 65% chance of making a free throw. Assume all free throws are independent. What is the probability that he makes his first free throw on the 3rd try?

What is BITS?

500

The parameter that is unknown and is the reason why we use a t-distribution instead of z.

What is population standard deviation?

500

The sampling method required for this problem:

A truck manufacturer selects 3 trucks at random from each of 6 models for safety testing.


What is a Stratified Random Sample?

500

The four principles of a well-designed experiment.

What is Randomization, Replication, Comparison, and Control?

500

Formula for confidence interval for a 2-prop z-interval.  

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