Sampling & Experiments
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Required to generalize to the entire population.

What is random sample.

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mu

What is the population mean?
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How to identify outliers for univariate data
What is Q1 - 1.5(IQR) and Q3 + 1.5(IQR)?
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The rule for finding the probability of rolling a fair die three times and getting three fours.
What is P(rolling three 4s) = P(4)*P(4)*P(4) = P(4)^3?
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The correlation coefficient between L1 and L2

What is STAT -> STATCALC -> LinReg(a+bx) L1, L2?

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A common form of blocking for comparing just two treatments.
What is matched pairs?
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p-hat

What is the sample proportion?

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The expected value of a discrete random variable
What is the mean of the random variable found by summing the products of the values of x and their repsective probabilities?
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Rule for events that are not mutually exclusive.

P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B)

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The proportion of values between 58 and 70 in a dataset that is approx normal with a mean of 67 and a standard deviation of 9.

What is DIST -> normalcdf( lower = 58, upper = 70, mean = 67, sd = 9)?

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When some groups in the population are left out of the process of choosing a sample
What is undercoverage?
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A z-score of -3.45
What is "The data value is 3.45 standard deviations below the mean"?
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The difference between Geometric and Binomial Distributions.

What is a set number of trials, rather than trials until the event occurs.

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The rule for finding the probability of a female given that they are an AP Stats student.
What is P(Female|AP Stats Student) = P(Female AP Stats Student)/P(AP Stats Student)
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Ten random integers from 1 to 100.

What is  PRB -> Random - > RantInt( min:1, max:100, number:10)

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The population is divided into groups. Some groups are randomly selected and all individuals in the chosen groups are sampled.
What is cluster sampling?
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The slope in the least-square regression line, y = 15 - 4x
What is "For every one unit increase in the explanatory variable, there is on average a 4 unit decrease in the reponse variable"?
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The standard deviation of the difference between two random variables.
What is the square root of the sum of the variances of the two random variables?
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The rule for finding the probability of obtaining the first success on the 5th trial.
What is P(X=5) = p(1-p)^4
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Boxplot

Data -> Quick Graph -> Plot Type - > Boxplot

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The effects of two variables on the response cannot be distinguished from each other.
What is confounding?
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95% Confidence Level

If we take many samples and construct 95% Confidence intervals for each we would expect 95% of the confidence intervals to capture the true parameter.

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The mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means
What is the mean of the sampling distribution of sample means is equal to the population mean and the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means is equal to the population standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size?
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The rule for finding 10 successes in 15 trials.
What is P(X=10) = (15 C 10)*p^10*(1-p)^5
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Adjusting the bin width on a histogram

What is WINDOW -> Xscl = binwidth?

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