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Statistics
Def: The study of collecting, organizing, and interperating data. |
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| Stats in a Role Playing Game. i.e ATK, DEX, STM, CON. |
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Individual
Def: A Person or Object of study. |
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Variable
Def: The characterist of the indiviual to be observed or measured. |
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Quantitative Variable
Def: A variable that " qauntifies" (assigns a numerical value)
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Qualiative Variable
Def: Variable that categorizes and discribes |
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Population
Def: Every Individual or Object of interest |
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| Coachs for recreation field hockey teams in America. |
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Sample
Def: A subset of the population |
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| Field hockey coaches only in Rhode Island. |
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Nominal Data
Def: Data consisting of only names or qualities (No numerical data) |
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Ordinal Data
Def: Data that has an order but differences between data values are meaningless |
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| The color has nothing todo with the fabric type. |
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Interval Data
Def: Data that has an order, meaningful differences, but may or may not have a starting point which makes ratios meaningless |
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| Linear rise of a cities population |
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Ratio Data
Def: Data with the same characteristics as interval data except with a starting point which makes ratios meaningful |
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| Kill Death Ratio in FPS's. Battlefield, Halo, etc |
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Descriptive Data
Def: The practice of collecting, organizing, and summarizing information from samples or populations |
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Inferenital Data
Def: The practice of interpreting sample values gained from descriptive techniques and drawing conclusions about the population |
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| reading a graph to find out favorite sandwitch type |
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