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The 5 W's
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This holds information about the same characteristic for many cases.
What is a variable?
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A bar chart displays this kind of variable.
What is a Categorical or Qualitative Variable?
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The numbers on a football player's jersey would be this kind of variable.
What is a Categorical or Qualitative Variable?
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the two ways a graph could be misleading 

what is scales and width of Bars 

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These are the 5 W's
What is "Who, What, When, Where, and Why"?
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This is the statistical term for the number of times an event occurs.
What is frequency?
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This display treats each bar as the "whole" and divides it proportionally into segments corresponding to the percentage in each group.
What is a Segmented Bar Chart?
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The final column in the green data table on page 13 of your textbook is this kind of variable.
What is a Quantitative Variable?
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the difference between a frequency table and a relative frequency table 

what is a frequency table display the counts at which something happens, while a relative frequency table shows the percent of the total number of times

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These are the cases, respondents, subjects, participants, or experimental units.

What is "Who"?

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Systematically recorded information, whether numbers or labels, together with it context.
What is data?
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This display shows the entire group of cases as a circle.
What is a Pie Chart or Circle Graph?
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A person's telephone number is an example of this type of variable.
What is a Categorical Variable?
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the distribution is skewed to the right with no outliers

mean > median 

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These recorded characteristics about individuals are the "What" in a data table.

What are Variables?

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Averages taken across different groups, that appear to contradict the overall averages.
What is Simpson's Paradox?
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A 3-D pie chart violates this principle.
What is the Area Principle?
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The average annual salary of 50 of a company's 800 employees is $54,000

what is Statistic 

 the data set of salaries of 50 employees is a sample.

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the Weight carried by a soldier in combat



what is Continuous, not countable

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Answering the 5 W's give this to a set of data values.
What is Context?
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This table list the categories in a categorical variable and give the percentage of the observations for each category.
What is a Relative Frequency Table?
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1. Make a picture. 2. Make a picture. 3. Make a picture.
What are The Three Rules of Data Analysis?
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A person's salary is an example of this type of variable.

What is a Quantitative Variable?

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When a researcher assigns individuals to a certain group, intentionally changing the value of an explanatory variable and then recording the value of the response variable for each group.

What is a designed experiment?

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These are the three most important W's.
What are Who, What, and Why?
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