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Gettin' Down with Distributions
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Gettin' Graphy with It
100
This is represented by the acronym "Christina Sings Songs Outloud".
What are center, shape, spread and outliers?
100
We are measuring number of chairs (1) from table to table (2).
What is the variable (1) and the observational units (2)?
100
A statistic that falls outside the expected range of data.
What is a statistical outlier?
100
Entering/naming/editing a list, 1-var stats command to discover the mean, standard deviation and interquartile range of a list.
What are the functions that can be performed by pressing the "stat" button on your calculator?
100
The graphical display most preferred by statisticians to analyze data.
What is a scatterplot?
200
Mean, median and mode.
What are the "measures of center"?
200
The difference between how many shoes are in my closet vs. the types of shoes in my closet.
What is a quantitative variable vs. a categorical variable?
200
First, a bump on the left, with a tail trailing to the right. Second, a bump on the right, with a trail trailing to the left.
What is skewed to the right and skewed to the left, respectively?
200
This allows us to travel along a line on a graphing calculator and view exact values.
What is the Trace key?
200
In a bar graph the data is not continuos, so the bars don't touch.
What is the difference between a bar graph and a histogram?
300
Range, interquartile range, standard deviation, boxplot, modified boxplots, five-number summary, empirical rule, z-score, standardized score, and side-by-side stemplots.
What are the eleven "measures of spread"?
300
Dividing a fraction results in this piece of data, which is less than one and can be multiplied to become a percentage.
What is a proportion?
300
A variable that is not taken into account in the initial data collection, but nevertheless alters the end results.
What is a lurking or confounding variable?
300
Allows us to learn the strength of the relationship between our two variables.
What is finding correlation?
300
A graphical concept that has something to do with a tree.
What is a stem-and-leaf plot?
400
Estimating a statistic that falls outside of the known values, the names of the specific values, and the process this type of judgment is based upon.
What is mathematical extrapolation, fitted values, and statistical tendency, respectively?
400
We've used these math terms since middle school.
What are slope and y-intercept?
400
Association and causation.
What is the relationship between the response variable and the explanatory variable, and is one causing the other?
400
Pressing the "stat" key, going to the "calc" menu, and selecting the first option on this menu.
What is the 1-var stats command?
400
The physical representation of the five-number summary.
What is a modified boxplot?
500
This variable can only be one or the other.
What is a binary variable?
500
To estimate who would win the football game between the Hornets and the Bumblebees, we used this mathematical formula, based upon how well the teams had done previously.
What is frequency and relative frequency?
500
A residual that is close to either 1 or -1.
What indicates a strong correlation?
500
Pressing the 2nd key, then the "catalog" button, and scrolling down alphabetically to turn this function on.
What is the diagnostic on command?
500
The line that is found to be best fit, due to the smallest size of squares from the residuals on each side.
What is the Least Squares Regression Line?
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