Statistics Ch1_1

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science of collecting and analyzing data

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statistics

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-information being collected

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data

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An entire population of people, animals, plants, or objects from which data can be collected.

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Population

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A subset of an entire group.

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Sample

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A question that can be answered with data.

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Statistical Question

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The process of drawing conclusions using valid data from samples and making generalizations about a population.

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Inferential Statistic

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Attributes such as hair color, eye color, religion, favorite movie, gender, and so on.

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Qualitative

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Variables such as number of children in a household are

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Discrete

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Classify the following: When classifying people according to their favorite color, there is no sense in which one color is placed “ahead of” another.

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Nominal

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Classify the scale used to measure consumers' satisfaction with their microwave ovens: “very dissatisfied,” “somewhat dissatisfied,” “somewhat satisfied,” or “very satisfied.”

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Ordinal