The 5 W's
Vocabulary
Examples
Displays
ACT
100
These are the 5 W's
What is "Who, What, When, Where, and Why"?
100

The collection of all outcomes, responses, measurements, or counts are of interest.

What is the population?

100

The numbers on a football player's jersey would be this kind of variable.

What is a Categorical?

100

A bar chart displays this kind of data.

What is a Categorical data?

100

Evaluate (8+7)/(3x5)

What is 1?

200
These are the cases, respondents, subjects, participants, or experimental units.
What is "Who"?
200
This is the statistical term for the number of times an event occurs.
What is frequency?
200

A dog's weight in pounds is an example of this type of variable.

What is a Quantitative?

200

This display shows the entire group of cases as a circle.

What is a Pie Chart or Circle Graph?

200

Simplify
(2 • 2)(-4 + -3) ÷ 7 

What is -4?

300

Animals, plants, and inanimate subjects are considered "who" for experiments. Specifically, they are referred to as ______.

What are Experimental Units?

300

Systematically recorded information, whether numbers or labels, together with its context.

What is data?

300

A person's telephone number is an example of this type of variable.

What is a Categorical?

300

This display shows the distribution of a quantitative variable, like histograms do, while preserving the individual values.

What is a Stem and Leaf Plot?

300

Solve for x.

3x-4=14

What is 6?

400

People on whom we experiment on are called ______.

What is Subjects or Participants?

400

When we see evidence that one variable is somehow related to another, we say there's _______ between them. 

What is an Association?

400

A person's salary is an example of this type of variable.

What is a Quantitative?

400
A 3-D pie chart violates this principle.
What is the Area Principle?
400

Solve for x.

2(x-5)+3x=x+6

What is 4?

500
These are the three most important W's.
What are Who, What, and Why?
500

This table list the categories in a categorical variable and gives the percentage of the observations for each category.

What is a Relative Frequency Table?

500

This display allows us to look at two categorical variables together. It shows how individuals are distributed along each variable, contingent on the value of the other variable

What is a contingency table?

500

The y-axis of a histogram will always have the title of

What is "count" or "frequency"?

500

 If f(x)=2x-5

Evaluate f(2)-f(5)

What is -6?

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