Data
The temperatures (to the nearest oF) of 5 sick children in a pediatrician’s office, recorded as {99, 101, 98, 102, 100}, is this type of data.
What is numerical continuous?
The expected value of the Binomial distribution is calculated using this formula.
What is E(X)=np ?
These are the two types of categorical data.
What are nominal and ordinal?
When generating a boxplot, this is the first step that should be taken with the data.
What is ordering from smallest to largest?
This type of cheese is often used when making classically Italian foods such as lasagna or cannolis.
What is ricotta?
If the mean is less than the median, then this is the skewness type.
What is negative/left skewness?
A Binomial trial consists of this many independent Bernoulli trials.
What is n ?
In the US, the candlepin version of this sport is only found in New England.
What is bowling?
When graphing the counts of categorical or discrete data, this is the best type of graph to use.
What is a bar graph?
This adjective describes a sample of data used to estimate a target population.
What is representative?
The interquartile range represents the middle this percentage of the data set.
What is 50%?
If a discrete random variable X follows a Poisson distribution with the model parameter 8.2, then this is its expected value.
What is E(X)=8.2 ?
In recent years, Yellowstone National Park rangers have needed to ask the general public to stop trying to take selfies with this herd animal.
What are bison/buffalo?
When generating a histogram, this is the ideal number of bins to use.
What is dependent on context?
This is the largest mountain range in North America, spanning both the United States and Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains or Rockies?
Unlike the standard deviation, the variance does not tell us this about the spread relative to the mean.
What are the units of measurement?
For any discrete distribution, this mathematical operation of all its probabilities is equal to 1.
What is the sum?
A researcher, interested in the opinions of highly-educated people about a major political issue, randomly samples students on the Harvard campus as they are walking between classes. The researcher likely committed this type of sampling error.
What is selection bias?
The upper adjacent value on a boxplot is calculated using this formula.
What is
Q_3 + 1.5*IQR
When collecting a sample of data, no matter the sampling method, it should be done in this manner.
What is random?
Given X~Poisson(3.8) it can be expected that X will vary +- this value in its units of measurement.
What is 1.95?
Given a discrete random variable X follows a Binomial distribution with the parameters n=24 and p=0.82 , this is the probability P(X>22) .
What is 5.35%?
The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Massachusetts, occurred in front of Worcester City Hall in this year.
What is 1776?
Given the following data, this value would be considered a mathematical outlier.
X={1.74, 1.12, 1.27, 1.26, 2.35, 0.51, 0.83}
What is 2.35?
The timber type of this predatory animal is considered endangered in Massachusetts and endemic to the eastern portion of the US.
What is a rattlesnake?