Overview of Statistics
Inferential or Descriptive Statistics
Types of Data
Levels of Measurement
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100

Information from observations, counts, measurements, or responses.

What is Data?

100
The collection, analysis, and presentation of data.
What is Descriptive Statistics?
100

Attributes, labels, or numerical entries.

What is Categorical or Qualitative data?

100
Qualitative only. Categorized using names, labels, or qualities.
What is Nominal Level of Measurement?
100

Quantitative or Categorical/Qualitative?: The age of your car.

What is Quantitative?

200

Science of planning, collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data in order to make decisions.

What is Statistics?

200
Drawing conclusion from the information from descriptive statistics.
What is Inferential Statistics?
200
Numerical measurements or counts.
What is Quantitative?
200
Qualitative or Quantitative. Categorized in order, or ranking but differences between data entries is not meaningful.
What is Ordinal Level of Measurements?
200
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Zip Codes
What is Nominal?
300

All the members in a group.

What is a Population?

300
Determining how a population behaves derived from a sample.
What is an example of Inferential Statistics?
300
Quantitative measurement that cannot be counted like an average.
What is Continuous?
300
Can be ordered and meaningful differences between data entries can be calculated. 0 represents position on scale, not an actual 0.
What is Interval Level of Measurement?
300
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Calendar Dates
What is Interval?
400

A subcollection, subset, or part, of a population.

What is Sample?

400
The action of a physician studying turbulence in a laboratory.
What is an example of Descriptive Statistics?
400
Can be counted like the number of wheels on a car.
What is Discrete?
400
The same as Interval except 0 is an actual 0 and a measurement.
What is Ratio Level of Measurements?
400
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Age
What is Ratio?
500

An official count of a population, collection of data from every member of the population.

What is Census?

500
Inferential And Descriptive Statistics.
What is the branches of statistics?
500
The measurement of how fast a car was going.
What is an example of Quantitative Data?
500

 Student ID numbers

What is Nominal Level of Measurements?

500
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Street Numbers
What is Ordinal?
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