STT 315 Chapter Notes - Chapter Vocab List: Dependent And Independent Variables, Design Of Experiments, Confounding
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Statistics chapter 1 vocabulary list a statistic class assignment: statistics. : science of collecting, organizing, summarizing, and analyzing: population, individual, sample, statistic information to draw conclusions or answer questions. : the entire group of individuals to be studied. : person or object that is a member of the population being studied. : subset of the population that is being studied. : numerical summary based on a sample: descriptive statistics. : organizing and summarizing data; describe data through numerical summaries, tables, and graphs: inferential statistics. : uses methods that take results from a sample, extends them to the: parameter. : numerical summary of a population: qualitative variable. : (or categorial variable)classification of individuals based on population, and measures the reliability of the result. some attribute or characteristic: quantitative variable. : provide numerical measures of individuals: discrete variable. : quantitative variable that has either a finite number of possible values or a countable number of possible values: continuous variable.
