The 5 W's
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These are the 5 W's
What is "Who, What, When, Where, and Why"?
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This holds information about the same characteristic for many cases.
What is a 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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A bar chart displays this kind of variable.
What is a Categorical or Qualitative Variable?
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This measure of center is more resistant to outliers than the mean.
What is the median?
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These are the cases, respondents, subjects, participants, or experimental units.
What is "Who"?
200
This is the statistical term for the number of times an event occurs.
What is frequency?
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These types of data take on numerical values for which arithmetic operations such as adding and averaging make sense.
What is quantitative data?
200
This display shows the entire group of cases as a circle.
What is a Pie Chart or Circle Graph?
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These are the measures of center and spread for a skewed data distribution.
What are median and IQR?
300
These recorded characteristics about individuals are the "What" in a data table.
What are Variables?
300
Systematically recorded information, whether numbers or labels, together with it context.
What is data?
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A person's telephone number is an example of this type of variable.
What is an identifier?
300
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?
300
This calculator command can calculate virtually all of your statistical data distribution values.
What is "1-Var Stats"?
400
Answering the 5 W's give this to a set of data values.
What is Context?
400
Averages taken across different groups, that appear to contradict the overall averages.
What is Simpson's Paradox?
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A person's salary is an example of this type of variable.
What is a Quantitative Variable?
400
A 3-D pie chart violates this principle.
What is the Area Principle?
400
The square of the standard deviation.
What is variance?
500
These are the three most important W's.
What are Who, What, and Why?
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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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This is a data table that displays the interaction of TWO categorical variables.
What is a contingency table?
500
This is your upper fence in a box plot.
What is Q3 + 1.5*IQR?
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These are Mrs Bierman's children.
Who are Alexander and Nathaniel?
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