The 5 W's
Vocabulary
Examples
Displays
Mr. Mays
100
These are the 5 W's
What is "Who, What, When, Where, and Why"?
100
This holds information about the same characteristic for many cases.
What is a variable?
100
The numbers on a football player's jersey would be this kind of variable.
What is a Categorical or Qualitative Variable?
100
A bar chart displays this kind of variable.
What is a Categorical or Qualitative Variable?
100
This is Mr. Mays' Xbox Live Gamertag.
What is Mayster Chief?
200
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?
200
The final column in the green data table on page 13 of your textbook is this kind of variable.
What is a Quantitative Variable?
200
This display shows the entire group of cases as a circle.
What is a Pie Chart or Circle Graph?
200
This SEC team is Mr. Mays' favorite.
What is the Florida Gators?
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?
300
A person's telephone number is an example of this type of variable.
What is a Categorical Variable?
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 was the picture on the iphone that was on our Categorical vs Quantitative Worksheet.
What is Mr. Mays holding a lightsaber?
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?
400
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
This is the place where Mr. Mays camped out all night to get his Xbox 360 on launch day.
What is Target?
500
These are the three most important W's.
What are Who, What, and Why?
500
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?
500
Number 18 on page 38 in your book shows this kind of table.
What is a contingency table?
500
1. Make a picture. 2. Make a picture. 3. Make a picture.
What are The Three Rules of Data Analysis?
500
This is the title of the Pie Chart on Mr. Mays' Edline Page.
What is The Pie Chart of Procrastination?
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