A survey in which the respondents compose the entire population.
What is a census?
100
A variable that has a single numerical value determined by chance.
What is a random variable?
100
A value at the center or middle of a data set.
What is a centerpoint?
100
Something that lists values by groups or intervals and their corresponding frequencies.
What is a frequency distribution?
100
My favorite topic in statistics.
What are probability distributions?
200
Observations that have been collected.
What is data?
200
A distribution that gives the probability for each value of a random variable.
What is a probability distribution?
200
A centerpoint value found by adding each value in the set and dividing it by the total number of values.
What is an arithmetic mean?
200
A sample value that lies far from the majority of other sample values.
What is an outlier?
200
Something that was not completed regularly.
What is homework and notes?
300
A numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a sample.
What is a statistic?
300
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A distribution containing variables classified into two categories.
What is a binomial probability distribution?
300
A data set in which the mean is greater than the median.
What is positive skew?
300
A bar graph in which the horizontal scale represents classes or intervals and the vertical scale represents frequencies.
What is a histogram?
300
T scores.
What is my least favorite topic?
400
Data which is either finite or "countable".
What is discrete data?
400
A normal probability distribution where μ = 0 and σ = 1.
What is a standard normal distribution?
400
A measure of variation of values about the mean.
What is standard deviation?
400
A distribution that when graphed has a bell shape.
What is a normal distribution?
400
Increased accountability, ability to spend more time on sections I personally found difficult, practice for collegiate note-taking.
What are some personal benefits to taking an independent-study style course?
500
A level of measurement that cannot be arranged or ordered in a meaningful way, e.g. zip codes
What is the nominal level of measurement?
500
An acronym for remembering extremely important characteristics of a data set.
What is CVDOT?
500
The proportion of any data set lying within 'n' standard deviations of the mean is always at least (1 - 1 / n^2), where 'n' is any positive number greater than 1.
What is Chebyshev's theorem?
500
A plot that represents quantitative data in a way that retains all of the information in the original list, while also offering a visual representation.