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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