Definitions
Descriptive statistics give information about
the characteristics of a particular group
You can describe a population using this table
frequency distribution table
Summary Statistics and Sorting/grouping and illustration/visual displays
A scatter plot is a chart that shows
the relationship between two or three variables.
Descriptive involve
tabulating, depicting, and describing data.
Name the 3 measures of central tendency.
Mean, Mode and Median
Descriptive statistics used to describe a single variable are called
univariate analysis
Scatter plot is a ______ representation of the strength of a relationship.
visual
Descriptive statistics summarize and
organize characteristics of a data set.
Name 2 types of descriptive statistics tools that give visual summaries.
Scatter plot, histogram, pie chart, bar graph
Descriptive statistics used to describe more than one (two or more) variable are called
bivariate/multivariate analysis
Descriptive statistics give a summary about the sample being studied without
drawing inferences
Name 1 simple type of descriptive statistics tool that is numerical
Percentage
Name 2 measures of variability
range, standard deviation, variance, interquartile range
Descriptive statistics can be any of these 3...
graphical, numeric, or show relationships.
Name 2 descriptive statistics tools that show relationship
regression analysis and correlation coefficient
In bivariate analysis, you can simultaneously study the __________ and _________ of two variables to see if they vary together.
frequency and variability