Definitions
Statistics (as a whole)
What is The Science of gathering, describing, and analyzing data?
Population & Sample
What is Population - Whole group and Sample - Part of a group?
Statistical Literacy
What is the ability to understand statistical concepts and reasoning?
Statistics (as a part)
What is The Numerical descriptions of sample data?
Qualitative & Quantitative
What is Qualitative are labels/brands names and do not have naturally occurring numbers and Quantitative is numerical data that can be carefully measured and counted?
Mean & Median
What is the average of all numbers in a dataset and the middle value in an ordered set of numbers?
Parameter
What is the Numerical description of a population characteristic?
Nominal & Ordinal
What is Nominal data consists of labels/names that you can only brand and assign and Ordinal being data you rank/order?
Mode
What is the mode is the value that appears the most in a data dataset?
Descriptive Statistics
What is the collection, organization, analysis, and presentation of data?
Interval & Ratio
What is the zero point in Ratio indicates an absence of something?
Range
What is the difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset?
Inferential Statistics
What is the means to make reasonable estimates of a population based on sample?
Variance & Standard Deviation
What is the Variance measures how far the values are from a mean and Standard Deviation shows how spread the dataset is?
Frequency
What is the number of times a value occurs in a dataset?