STAB22H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
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Can"t see everything or measure it all. What we can measure might be inaccurate. How late the flight was (0=on time) Can only count how many individuals per category. Able to separate things in categories e. g. gender, colour, race, level of disease. Have unit of measurement e. g. height, temperature. Case: anything we study; an individual about whom or which we have data; subject, participant. Variable: holds information about the same characteristic for many cases. Units: a quantity/ amount adopted as a standard of measurement; how each value has been measured; how far apart 2 values are e. g. dollars, hours. Chapter 3: displaying and describing categorical data (p. 20) In 1991 and again in 2001, a poll was taken of 1015 adults about their opinions on working parents. The question was considering the needs of adults and children, what do you see as the ideal family in today"s society? .
