Descriptive Stats
Inferential Stats
More Stats
Vocabulary
90s Misc (maybe)
100
Mean, Median and Mode are measures of...
Range and standard deviation are measures of....
What is Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Dispersion (which are...)
100
A subset of a population
What is a sample?
100
These three descriptive statistics show where the bulk of the data lie in a distribution
What is the mean, median and mode?
100
The "subject" of your research - the level/type of observation you are studying.
What is unit of analysis?
100
The hypothesis where there is not a relationship or difference
What is the null hypothesis?
200
The type of data that go across a unit of analysis, the type of data that go across time, and the type of data that do both
what are cross-sectional, time-series and panel data
200
The reason why inferential stats are called inferential
What is because you use them to infer something from a sample to a population
200
This is the statistical term for the level of confidence you want to have in your results
What is alpha?
200
Age, population, area, savings, tax rates, water usage are all examples of these.
What are variables?
200
When you reject a hypothesis when in fact it is true, or when you accept a hypothesis when in fact it is false.
Type I or II error
300
The kind of distribution you have when the mean is much greater than the median
What is a positively skewed distribution?
300
These are at least four kinds of ways to gather data on a subset of a population
What are random, stratified, cluster, snowball, and convenience sampling (get 4 of the 5)
300
They were the best Star Trek Captain
Jean-Luc Picard!
300
This type of data can go up or down, but not precisely.
What is ordinal data?
300
Other terms for a Type 1 or Type II error
What is False Positive or False Negative
400
The kind of distribution that is equal on both sides of the mean
What is symmetrical or a normal distribution?
400
In multiple regression, you can include multiple of these.
Independent variables
400
These two letters of the alphabet symbolize independent and dependent variables in statistics
What are X and Y?
400
In looking at a relationship between two phenomena, this one is considered the outcome.
What is the dependent variable.
400
Sometimes called a critical value in inferential stats - give it a good guess or explanation.
Bonus (500!), what would the value be (exactly) if you wanted to be at least 95% confident that your result is not just random.
What is a T-score - basically the point above (or below, that is + or -) where you conclude a result is likely NOT random.
Bonus - what is 1.96 (or 2 is good enough)
500
This is the number of standard deviations from the mean (- and +) that encompass 95% of a normal curve in a data distribution
What is 2 on either side of the mean?
500
The 4 kinds of inferential statistical tests we cover in this class (we concentrate on 3 of the 4)
T-test, chi-square, correlation and regression.
500
The level of probability at which a null hypothesis is rejected.
Alpha
500
This is also called an explanatory variable
What is an independent variable?
500
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and hit in the movie Shrek II
What is Livin la Via Da Loca?