Continuous Data or Discrete Data
Qualitative Data or Quantitative Data
Population
Levels of Measurement
Statistic
100
True or False: Discrete Data can only take certain values
True
100
Describe Qualitative data
What is anything that can be expressed as a number
100
What is the population of our class?
What is 24
100
Define Interval Level of Measurement
What is numerical scales in which intervals have the same interpretation throughout
100
Define Statistic
What is a fact or piece of data from a study of a large quantity of numerical data
200
How are continuous data and discrete data different
Discrete is counted and Continuous is measured.
200
Describe Quantitative data
What is data expressing a certain quantity, amount or range
200
What is the definition of population
What is all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country
200
Define Ordinal Level of Measurement
What is items in this scale are ordered, ranging from least to most satisfied
200
Is a census a Statistic?
What is yes
300
True or False: Data is never Discrete
What is False
300
There are 792 students in the school. What type of data is this?
What is Quantitative
300
There are over 8 million people in NYC. This is an example of what
What is population.
300
A classification that describes the nature of information within the numbers assigned to variables one simply names or categorizes responses
What is Nominal Level of Measurement
300
True or False- A statistic is the same as statistics
What is false
400
Is height discrete or continuous?
What is Continuous
400
Qualitative data _____ whereas quantitative data ____.
What is Describes, Defines
400
What is the meaning of population in statistics?
population is the entire pool from which a statistical sample is drawn.
400
An interval scale with the additional property that its zero position indicates the absence of the quantity being measured
What is Ratio Level of Measurement
400
True or False- All data is a statistic?
What is true
500
Give two examples of each
Discrete- Number of children in a household Number of languages a person speaks Number of people sleeping in stats class Continuous- Height of children Weight of cars Time to wake up in the morning Speed of the train
500
What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative data?
What is Quantitative is numerical data and qualitative is non numerical mostly like a description.
500
True or False: Population is a small group of people within a bigger one
What is False
500
This scale of measurement is the most informative scale
What is Ratio Level of Measurement
500
How does the term statistic relate to sample?
What is Statistic is a numerical characteristic of a sample