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Chapter 1 vocab
Describing Data
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Mathematics
Undergraduate 1
09/09/2009

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Term
Descriptive Statistics
Definition
Numbers that describe data.
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Statistic Inference
Definition
procedure of drawing conclusion about the population based on the information from the sample.
Term
Parameters
Definition
Numbers that describe the population (usually unknown)
Term
Statistic
Definition
Number calculated from data (known; used to estimate the parameter)
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range
Definition
difference between the largest observation and the smallest.
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