UCF QMB3200 Midterm Study Questions
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Analytics
✓✓ the scientific process of transforming data into insight for
making better decisions
Descriptive Analytics
✓✓ Analytical techniques that describe what has happened in
the past.
Predictive Analytics
✓✓ Analytical techniques that use models constructed from
past data to predict the future or assess the impact of one
variable on another.
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Prescriptive Analytics
✓✓ Analytical techniques that yield a course of action.
Big Data
✓✓ A set of data that cannot be managed, processed, or
analyzed with commonly available software in a reasonable
amount of time. Big Data are characterized by 4 v's: volume,
velocity, variety, and veracity.
Data Mining
✓✓ The process of using procedures from statistics and
computer science to extract useful information from extremely
large databases.
Frequency Distribution
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✓✓ A tabular summary of data showing the number
(frequency) of observations in each of several nonoverlapping
categories or classes.
Relative Frequency Distribution
✓✓ A tabular summary of data showing the fraction or
proportion of observations in each of several nonoverlapping
categories or classes.
Percent Frequency Distribution
✓✓ A tabular summary of data showing the percentage of
observations in each of several nonoverlapping classes.
Bar Chart
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✓✓ A graphical device for depicting categorical data that have
been summarized in a frequency, relative frequency, or percent
frequency distribution.
Pie Chart
✓✓ A graphical device for presenting data summaries based
on subdivision of a circle into sectors that correspond to the
relative frequency for each class.
Class Midpoint
✓✓ the value halfway between the lower and upper class limits
Dot Plot
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