What is measures the characteristics of a population by studying individuals in a sample, but does not attempt to manipulate the variable(s) of interest
100
A subset of the population
What is sample
100
The characteristics of the individuals within the population
What is variable
200
Collecting, organizing, summarizing, and analyzing information to draw conclusions or answer problems
What is statistics
200
Placebo-An innocuous _____ such as a sugar tablet
What is drug
200
Sampeling Without Replacement
What is sampeling so you don't select the same client twice
200
Obtained by separating the population into nonoverlapping groups called strata and then obtaining a random sample from each group
What is stratified sample
200
Allows for classification of individuals based on some attribute or characteristic
What is qualitative variable
300
A person or object that is a member of the population being studied
What is an individual
300
Double-blind-When neither the doctor administering the drug nor the patient knew where he/she was in the ________ or controlled group
What is expiramental
300
Simple Random Sample
What is having an equally likely chance of occuring
300
Obtained by selecting every kth individual from the population...like taking every 5th person from a class list.
What is systematic sample
300
Provides numerical measures of individuals
What is quantitative variable
400
Organizing and summarizing the information collected
What is Descriptive Statistics
400
Census-A list of all individuals in a _______ along with certain characteristics of each individual
What is population
400
Designed Expirament
What is applies a treatment to individuals and attempts to isolate the effects of the treatment on a response variable.
400
Obtained by selecting all individuals within a randomly selected collection or group of individuals
What is cluster sample
400
A quantitative variable that has either a finite number of possible values or a countable number of possible values
What is discrete variable
500
Takes results obtained from a sample, extends them to the population, and measures the reliability of the result
What is inferential statistics
500
Lurking Variable-The ________ that may be related to cancer, but that have not been identified in the study.
What is characteristics
500
Seed
What is in a random-number generator that provides an intitial point for the generator to start creating random numbers
500
Sample where the individuals are easily obtained
What is convenience sample
500
A quantitative variable that has an infinite number of possible values that are not countable