Data & Variables
Simple Probability
Odds & Probability
Compound Events
More Probability
100
Any characteristic of a person or thing that can be assigned a number or category.
What is a variable?
100
The set of all possible outcomes.
What is the sample space?
100
The number of favorable outcomes divided by the number of unfavorable outcomes.
What are odds?
100
The combination of multiple simple events.
What are compound events?
100
A visual display used to show categorical (qualitative) variables.
What is a bar graph?
200
A variable that measures a numerical characteristic.
What is a quantitative or measurement variable?
200
A number from 0 to 1 or 0% to 100% that indicates how likely an event is to happen.
What is probability?
200
The odds of rolling a 3 with one die.
What are 1 to 5?
200
An event that the outcome of the first event has no effect on the probabilities of the outcome of the second event.
What is an independent event?
200
A very simplistic visual display using dots for each individual piece of data.
What is a dot plot?
300
A variable that records a category designation.
What is qualitative or categorical variable?
300
Events M and N can occur in "m" and "n" ways, so the event M followed by event N can occur in "m times n" ways.
What is the Fundamental Counting Principle?
300
The probability based on all the possible outcomes.
What is theoretical probability?
300
An event that the outcome of the first event has an effect on the probabilities of the outcome of the second event.
What is a dependent event?
300
The probability of rolling a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 with one die.
What is one-sixth?
400
Variables for which only two possible categories exist.
What is a categorical binary variable?
400
An ordered combination.
What is a permutation?
400
Probability based on experimental data found by repeating the experiment several times.
What is experimental (experiential or empirical) probability?
400
Events that cannot happen at the same time.
What are mutually exclusive events?
400
When all the probabilities for an event are equal.
What is an equally likely event?
500
The person or thing to which the number or category is assigned.
What is the case or observational unit?
500
A calculation of things when order does not matter.
What is a combination?
500
Experimental (experiential or empirical) probability approaches this in the long run.
What is theoretical probability?
500
The number of outcomes in the sample space for rolling two dice.
What is 36?
500
An event like tossing a fair coin or spinning a balanced tennis racket.
What is an equally likely event?
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