EXST 2201 : FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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1. 1 definitions: population, the totality of elements in a well defined group to be studied, the whole, sample, a subset of a population, part of the whole. A study that measures a characteristic in a sample w/ controlling the experimental units or the treatment: ex: measure the weight gain of 3 females vs. 3 males on a week long high protein diet. 2. 1 graphical methods for quantitative data: frequency table, a table that lists all the categories of data, w/ the # of occurrences for each category, columns: category, frequency, relative frequency, cumulative. A graph of the 5-# summary: see page 22 of ch2. 3. 2 standard normal: properties of the standard normal curve, perfectly symmetric, bell-shaped curve, w/, mean=0, standard deviation=1, area from the z-score, z-table, z-score from the area, z-table. 3. 3 applications: area from x-value, z-transformation & z-table, x-value from area, z-transformation & z-table.
