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10 Cards in this Set
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Sample
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Subset of units of population
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Population
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All units of interest
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Statistics
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-is the science of data. It involves collecting, classifying, summarizing, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting numerical information.
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Parameter
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describes an entire population
-defined as the numerical summary of a population. |
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Experimental Unit
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Object upon which we collect data
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Quantitative
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are measurements that are recorded on a naturally occurring numerical scale.
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Qualitative
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are measurements that cannot be measured on a natural numerical scale; they can only be classified into one of a group of categories.
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Variable
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Characteristics of an individual experimental unit
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Obtaining data
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Published source
designed experiment observationally study |
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Statistic
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-a fact or piece of data from a study of a large quantity of numerical data.
data from a sample |