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two categories of categorical data |
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nominal and ordinal (above avg. avg. below avg., like eye color, male or female) |
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two categories of quantitative data |
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what is a simple random sample |
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equally likely chance to occur |
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randomly select groups from random groups |
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random picked from homogeneous data |
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mistake on our part, swayed toward one side |
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always present, can not be avoided |
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what is a contingency table good for |
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reading 2 way frequencies |
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what are pie charts and bar charts good for |
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what %, how many, marginal/conditional distributions |
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what is a histogram used for |
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to see distribution shape |
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what are the distribution shapes |
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symmetrical, skewed right, skewed left |
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what is shown in a box plot |
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first and third quartiles, fences, median, and outliers |
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what is a time series used for |
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how do you determine the central location |
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how do you find variation |
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range, IQR (Q3-Q1), variance, standard deviation, and z scores |
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how do you find the z score |
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value of interest-median/standard deviation |
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probability rule: probability must always be between ____ and ____ |
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probability rule: grand total must not be over |
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when do you use the addition rule |
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under what conditions do you use the addition rule if it says OR or BOTH |
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they must be mutually exclusive (disjoint), they can not happen at the same time |
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when do you use the multiplication rule |
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under what circumstances do you use the multiplication rule when it says AND |
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it can only happen if A and B are independent (does not influence the other) |
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when do you use the complement rule |
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how do you find the complement rule |
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1- prob of not getting anything |
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individuals who answer the survey are referred to as |
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people whom we experiment on are |
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animals, plants, website, and other inanimate subjects are often called |
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the characteristics recorded about each individual or case are called |
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in a ____________ two or more seperate data tables are linked together so that information can be merged across them. |
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when a variable names categories and answers questions about how cases fall into those categories we call it a |
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when a variable has measured numerical values with units and the variable tells us about the quantity of what is measured, we call it a |
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categorical variables used only to name categories are sometimes called |
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values that can be individually ordered are |
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we have the same variable measured at regular intervals over time |
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what is cross-sectional data |
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where several variables are measured at the same time point. |
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What you must know to analyze data |
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an attempt to collect data on the entire population of interest |
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a numerically valued attribute of a model for a population. |
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the entire group of individuals or instances about whom we hope to learn |
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a list of individuals from which the sample is drawn. |
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distributions with two modes |
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uses adjacent bars to show the distribution of values in a quantitative variable |
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the description of how tightly clustered the distribution is around it center. measures of spread include the IQR and the standard deviation |
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the standard deviation squared |
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