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Overview of Statistics
Definitions in Statistics
Levels of Measurement
Types of Data
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Information coming from observations, counts, measurements, or responses.
What is Data?
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The collection, analysis, and presentation of data.

What is Statistics?

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Categorized using names, labels, or qualities.

What is Nominal Level of Measurement?

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Attributes, labels, or numerical entries.
What is Qualitative?
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A type of Nominal Level of Measurement. Categorized into two categories/levels. (Ex: True/False)

What is Binary Data?

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Science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data in order to make decisions.
What is Statistics?
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Drawing a conclusion from a sample that applies to the whole population being studied.

What is an inference?

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Categorized using order or ranking.

What is Ordinal Level of Measurements?

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Numerical measurements or counts.
What is Quantitative?
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Describes the relative concentration of data in the tail of a distribution.

What is Flatness or Kurtosis?

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All the members in a group when taking a census.

What is Population?

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Probability that an event will happen given that another event has already happened.

What is the conditional probability.

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Are ordered and has equal distances between data entries. 0 represents position on scale, not an actual 0.

What is Interval Level of Measurement?

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Quantitative measurement that cannot be counted like an average.
What is Continuous?
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Calendar Dates (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio?)

What is Interval?

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A subset, or part, of a population.
What is Sample?
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A general distribution that has the shape of a bell curve.  

What is a Normal Distribution?

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A kind of Interval with meaningful 0 point.

What is Ratio Level of Measurements?

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Can be counted like the number of wheels on a car.
What is Discrete?
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Age (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio?)

What is Ratio?

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A condition or characteristic that can have different values.

What is variable?

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P(B/A) = P(A)P(B/A)/P(B)

What is Bayes's Theorem?

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ex. My car's speed can range from 0 to 100 miles per hour.

What is Nominal Level of Measurements?

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The measurement of how fast a car was going.
What is an example of Quantitative Data?
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Street Numbers (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio?)

What is Ordinal?