Stats basics
Collection of methods for analyzing, collecting, interpreting, and collecting data.
What is statistics?
A type of variable that represents categories.
What is categorical?
This chart displays the frequency of different categories in a dataset.
What is a bar graph?
A term that describes how a single variable's values are distributed across its possible values.
What is marginal distribution?
This term shows individual data points on a number line.
What is a dot plot?
Specific observations being studied.
What are individuals?
A type of variable that has numerical values that can be measured.
What is quantitative?
A type of graph shows the parts of a whole and is often circular in shape.
What is a pie chart?
This distribution shows the probability of a certain outcome given a specific condition.
What is conditional distribution?
This summary statistic shows how much variation exists in a dataset.
What is standard deviation?
Information that comes from measurements, observations, experiments, responses, or counts.
What is Data?
Categories with no order (unordered)
What is Nominal?
The way to determine the center of a data set when the data is skewed.
What is Median?
When the data set looks similar on both side. (Both sides of the data are mirrored By each other)
What is Symmetrical?
This shows the distribution of data by having the leading digits on one side and the last digits on the other.
What is Stem-and-leaf Plot?
Measurements of the entire population.
What is Census
What is Ordinal?
The way to determine the center of a data set when the data is symmetrical.
What is Mean?
When the data set has a tail on either side.
What is Skewed?
The rule for finding outliers in data.
What is the 1.5 Rule?