Stats Basics
What is the study of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data?
What Is Statistics?
What are the characteristics recorded about each individual called?
What is Variables?
What feature describes whether a distribution is symmetric, skewed, or has multiple peaks?
What is Shape?
What describes the typical or middle value of a distribution?
What is Center?
What describes how spread out the values in a data set are?
What is Variability?
What is the process of examining data to find patterns and draw conclusions?
What is Data Analysis?
What type of variable sorts individuals into groups or labels?
What is Categorical?
What distribution summarizes one variable in a two-way table, ignoring the other variable?
What is Marginal Distribution?
What describes a distribution with a longer tail on one side?
What is Skewed?
What summary includes the minimum, Q1, median, Q3, and maximum?
What is Five-Number Summary?
What are the people or objects described by a data set called?
What is Individuals?
What type of variable records numerical measurements or counts?
What is Quantitative?
What distribution describes one variable for individuals within a particular group of another variable?
What is Conditional Distribution?
What is a data value that lies unusually far from the other values?
What is Outlier?
What measure describes the typical distance of data values from the mean?
What is Standard Deviation?