Stats Chapter 1
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bulllombardo on February 14, 2012
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Data | facts and figures collected, analyzed, and summarized for presentation and interpretation |
| Data Set | all the data collected |
| Elements | Entities on which data is collected |
| Variable | Characteristic of interest for the elements |
| Observation | measurement obtained for a particular element |
| Nominal | labels or names, nonnumeric label or numeric code |
| Ordinal | order or rank of the data is meaningful |
| Interval | always numeric |
| Ratio | ratio of 2 values is meaningful, variables such as height weight, time |
| Categorical Data | labels or names used to identify, referred to as qualitative data, can be both numeric and nonnumeric |
| Quantitative Data | how many or how much, always numeric |
| Discrete | measuring how many |
| Continuous | how much |
| Cross-Sectional Data | collected at the same or approximately the same point in time |
| Time Series Data | collected over several periods of time |
| Population | set of all elements of interes |
| Sample | subset of the population |
| Statistical Inference | process of using data obtained from a sample to make estimates and test hypotheses |
| Census | collecting data for the entire population |
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