Types of data
Sampling techniques
Potpourri
Outliers
100

A random variable X, representing the number of students in classes at AHS, represents this kind of numerical data.

Discrete

100

A researcher stands outside a local library and surveys the first 50 people who walk through the door about their reading habits.

Convenience Sampling

100

Systematic error that results in certain outcomes being favored over others.

bias

100

The value found by subtracting the lower quartile  Q_1 

 from the upper quartile  Q_3 .

IQR

Inter-quartile range

200

A random variable X, representing the favorite color of survey participants, represents this kind of data.

Categorical

200

Selecting every nth member from a list or a line.

Systematic random sampling

200

This Sampling method is not random because the researcher simply picks people until the categories are filled.

quota
200

After removing the outlier from the set {11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 45}, the median is ___

14

300

Not the sample, but the entire group

population

300

The researcher surveys selected classrooms during 3B

Cluster sampling

300

The term for organizing and describing the characteristics of a group, rather than making predictions.

Descriptive statistics

300

The specific formula for the Upper Boundary of outliers is this.

Q_3+1.5 * IQR

400

This is the basic difference between discrete and continuous data.

discrete data is counted, continuous data is measured

answers may vary slightly

400

In a population of 1,000 with 200 seniors, the number of seniors needed for a stratified sample of 50 is this

10

explanation

200/1000=n/50

400

This is how consistent a measurement is

Reliability

400

Of the Mean and the Median, the measure of central tendency that is not affected by outliers.

Median

500

A random variable R represents the room number of a student's 1A class. This represents what kind of data?

Categorical

500

Every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected, and every possible group of size n is be equally likely to be chosen.

Simple Random Sampling

500

Attempting to describe the heights of high school students by measuring the basketball team fails because the sample is not _________________

representative

500

In a data set with a very high outlier, the Mean will be _________ than the Median.

higher, greater, bigger, larger

etc