STATISTICS FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY HATE STATISTICS 7TH EDITION SALKIND FREY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH FULL SOLUTION 2026 ELITE EDITION

STATISTICS FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK
THEY HATE STATISTICS 7TH EDITION
SALKIND FREY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH FULL SOLUTION 2026 ELITE EDITION

⩥ descriptive statistics. Answer: used to organize and describe the
characteristics of a collection of data.


⩥ data set/data. Answer: the collection of descriptive statistics.


⩥ inferential statistics. Answer: used to make inferences from a smaller
group of data to a possibly larger one.


⩥ average. Answer: the one value that best represents an entire group of
scores.


⩥ measures of central tendency. Answer: another way of saying averages
with three branches: mean, median, and mode.


⩥ mean and formula. Answer: the most common type of average that is
the sum of all the values in a group, divided by the number of values in
that group. X=EX/n

, ⩥ arithmetic mean. Answer: the point about which the sum of the
deviations is equal to zero.


⩥ median. Answer: the midpoint in a set of scores.


⩥ percentile points. Answer: used to define the percentage of cases equal
to and below a certain point in a distribution or a set of score.


⩥ skew. Answer: significantly distort the result.


⩥ outliers. Answer: extreme scores.


⩥ mode. Answer: the value that occurs most frequently.


⩥ data points. Answer: observations displayed on a graph or chart.


⩥ SPSS. Answer: Statistical Package for the Social Science.


⩥ variability. Answer: reflects how scores differ from one another (ex.
7,6,3,3,1).


⩥ standard deviation (s or SD). Answer: represents the average amount
of variability in a set of scores.