Statistics - Answers a set of procedures (methods) which deal with the collection, organization,
analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts/data
Descriptive Statistics - Answers describes an existing condition or state of nature and doesn't
make predictions
Statistical Inference - Answers Involves taking a sample from a population/universe and
drawing conclusions abut the characteristics of the population based on the characteristics of
the sample that came from that populations
Population - Answers every item of interest in any given study
Population Symbol - Answers N
Census - Answers when data is collected from every item in the population
Sample - Answers when data is collected from only part of the population
Sample Symbol - Answers n
Statistics are - Answers calculations performed on sample data
Parameters - Answers calculations performed on population data
Measures of Central Tendency examples - Answers mean, median, mode
Measures of Central Tendency - Answers measures some central value in a set of data
Mean symbol for population - Answers mu
Mean symbol for sample - Answers x bar
Array - Answers always organize date from smallest to largest
Measures of Dispersion - Answers measures the spread of central tendency
Outlier - Answers A value much greater or much less than the others in a data set that can
cause the mean to be misleading
Median - Answers number in organized set of data that cuts the data in half- must be interpreted
Median interpretation - Answers half of these students were less than 18 years old
Mode - Answers the most frequently occurring numbers in a sample
2 Modes - Answers bimodal