This is the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data.
What is statistics?
This level of measurement categorizes data without a specific order.
What is nominal?
A sampling method where every member of the population has an equal chance of being chosen.
What is simple random sampling?
The average value calculated by summing all data points and dividing by the number of points.
What is the mean?
A graph that shows data divided into slices representing proportions of a whole.
What is a pie chart?
A complete set of all individuals or items of interest in a study.
What is a population?
Data measured on a scale with equal intervals and a true zero point.
What is ratio?
Sampling only those members who are easy to reach or contact.
What is convenience sampling
The middle value when data is ordered from least to greatest.
What is the median?
This is the process of arranging data from smallest to largest.
What is sorting or ordering?
A subset of the population used to collect data and make conclusions.
What is a sample?
This type of data uses words or labels, not numbers.
What is qualitative?
When a study systematically excludes certain groups, this type of error occurs.
What is sampling bias?
The value that occurs most frequently in a data set.
What is the mode?
This value divides a data set into four equal parts.
What is a quartile?
The value or category observed or measured for each member of a sample or population.
What is a variable?
Height, weight, and temperature are examples of this type of data.
What is quantitative data?
This type of study observes without influencing the subjects.
What is an observational study?
The difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set.
What is the range?
Skewed right or left?
What is Skewed left ?
This type of variable can only take specific values, often counts or categories
What is a discrete variable?
What graph is this?
What is bar graph?
A study where researchers actively impose treatments or conditions.
What is an experiment?
This type of graph uses bars to represent categorical data frequencies.
What is a bar graph?
The average distance data points are from the mean is called this.
What is standard deviation?