Stats Vocab
A type of data that can be counted, rather than measured.
What is Discrete?
This lower case Greek letter represents the standard deviation of a population.
What is sigma?
The mean of this data set: 2, 3, 7
What is 4?
The probability of getting heads when you flip a coin for the 6th time (hint: value between 0 and 1)
What is 1/2 or 0.5?
Mr. Weis worked at this school before coming to West Delaware. (Hint: between Manchester and Cedar Rapids)
What is Central City?
A type of data that describes an amount of something (i.e. time to run a mile, # of calls)
What is Quantitative?
What is s?
The median of this data set: 2, 4, 10, 10
What is 7?
Probability of rolling 2 dice and getting doubles
What is 6/36, 1/6 or 0.166...?
Mrs. White replaced this science teacher
Who is Mrs. Ridenour?
A graph that is named after a common dessert
What is a Pie Graph/Chart?
This lower case Greek letter represents the mean of a population.
What is mu?
The midrange of this data set: 3, 5, 9, 11, 17
The type of probability that uses large amounts of data or results from a simulation
What is experimental or empirical
The 3 sports Mr. Litterer has coached at West Delaware High School
What is wrestling, football and track?
A table that shows different classes of data and the frequecy of each class.
What is a frequency distribution?
The shape the data set when the mean, median & mode are equal.
What is Bell Shaped or Normally Distributed?
The type of probability that uses sample spaces to calculate probabilities
What is classical?
The last name of the person the WDHS gym is named after
What is Seedorff?
This word describes a data set that has more than 2 modes.
What is multimodal?
What is the variance of the population?
The direction the data is skewed when the mean is less than the median and mode
What is left or negatively?
The probability of rolling all 5's when you roll 3 dice
What is 1/216?
The grade that Mrs. Storms taught right before she retired
What is 7th?