Vocabulary
Branches of Statistics
(Descriptive/Inferential)
Mean, Median, Mode
Measures of Variability
100

Information coming from observations, counts, measurements, or responses.

What is Data?

100

The collection, analysis, and presentation of data.

What is Descriptive Statistics?

100

Find the mode of this set:

3,4,4,5,6,7,8,9

Mode: 4

100

Describes the spread of data

What is range?

200

Science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data in order to make decisions.

What is Statistics?

200

Drawing conclusion from the information from descriptive statistics.

What is Inferential Statistics?

200

Find the mean and mode of this set: 

3,5,7,7,8,8,8

Mean: 6.6

Mode: 8

200

The measure of variability that calculates the middle 50% of the data

What is the interquartile range?

300

All the members in a group.

What is Population?

300

Determining how a population behaves derived from a sample. (Testing hypotheses)

What is an example of Inferential Statistics?

300

Find the mean and median of this set? 

3,4,5,6,7,8,10

Mean: 6.1

Median: 6

300

Data that has no skew.

What is normal distribution?

400
A subset, or part, of a population.
What is Sample?
400

The action of a physician studying turbulence in a laboratory.

What is an example of Descriptive Statistics?

400

What is the mean, median, and mode of this set: 

3,4,5,2,1,1,1,1

Mean: 2.25

Median: 1.5

Mode: 1

400

When the mean is greater than the median.

What is skewed right?
500

Data used to describe information that is divided into groups, such as colors.

What is categorical?

500

You survey 10 psychology students who all say that they love statistics. You infer that all/most of psychology students love statistics.

What is an example of Inferential Statistics?

500

What is the, mean, median, and mode of this set: 

509, 50, 20, 80, 45, 50, 30,

Mean:112

Mode:50

Median: 50

500

When the mean is less than the median.

What is skewed left?