STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS VERIFIED BY EXPERTS
⩥ Statistics. Answer: Collection of methods for planning experiments,
obtaining data, organizing, summarizing, presenting, analyzing,
interpreting, and drawing conclusions based on data.
⩥ inferential statistics. Answer: numerical data that allow one to
generalize- to infer from sample data the probability of something being
true of a population
⩥ variable. Answer: A factor that can change in an experiment
⩥ discrete variable. Answer: a quantitative variable that has either a
finite number of possible values or a countable number of possible
values
⩥ continuous variable. Answer: a quantitative variable that has an
infinite number of possible values that are not countable
⩥ quantitative variable. Answer: a characteristic that can be measured
numerically