Normal distributions
Understanding Distributions
Vocabulary
Interpretations
Misc.
100

The shape of a normal distribution

What is bell-shaped?
100

The mean of 6,7,5,7,5

What is 6?

100

A measure of the avergae distance from the mean

What is standard deviation?

100

The predicted (y-context) when x = 0 context is the (____).

What is the y-intercept?

100

A student interviews 32 classmates, asking how they get to school every morning. Name the type of variable.

What is categorical?

200

What the acronym CSOCS stands for

What is Context, Shape, Outliers, Center, Spread?

200

The median of 6,7,5,7,9

What is 7?

200

The strength and direction of a linear relationship

What is correlation?

200

The (context) typically varies by (___) from the mean of (mean).

Standard Deviation

200

Correlation _____ Causation

What is "does not prove"?

300

The two methods of finding outliers

What are 1.5IQR and 2SD methods?

300

The shape of 4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7

What is uniform?

300

The error between what the LSRL predicts the y value will be for a given x and the actual y value

What is a residual? 

300

For every additional 1(x-variable unit), the (y-variable) increases/decreases by (__
___)(y-variable unit), on average

What is slope?

300

(observed-expected)/standard deviation

What is z-score?

400

The mean of a standardized normal distribution

What is 0?

400

The shape of 2,3,4,5,6,6,7,7,7,8,8,8,9,9

What is skewed left?

400

When the effect of multiple explanatory variables on a response variable cannot be separated

What is a Confounding variable?

400

The actual (y-context) was (____) above/below the predicted value when (x-context = #).

What is a Residual

400

Correlation coeffcient of 0.87

What is a strong, positive correlation?

500

The % of data within 3 standard deviations from the mean

What is 99.7%?

500

The IQR of 4,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,9,11

What is 2?

500

response variable= a+b(explanatory variable)

What is LSRL(Least-Squares Regression Line)?

500

(Specific value with context) is (___) standard deviations above/below the mean.

What is a z-score?

500

A bar graph is used for _____ quantitative data 

What is discrete?

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