STAT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Simple Random Sample, Pareto Chart, Normal Distribution
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Collecting data, organizing, summarizing and analyzing to get an answer or conclusions. Uses methods taken from a sample, extends them to the population and measure the reliability of the result. An explanatory variable that was not considered in a study, but that affects the value of the response variable in the study. Facts used to draw a conclusion or make a decision. Subset of the population that is being studied. Sampling frame the source material or device from which a sample is drawn. A list of all induvial in a population along with certain characteristics of each individual. Allow for classification of induvial based on some attribute: quantitative. A substance that is used as a control in testing new drugs. A testing procedure, designed to eliminate biased results, in which the identity of those receiving a test treatment is concealed from both administrators and subjects until after the study is completed.
