Statistics sec 1.1 vocab review

People or objects included in the study.

• individuals

• Statistics

• data

• inferential

A variable that has a numerical measurement for which operations such as addition and averaging make sense.

• quantitative variable

• qualitative variable

A variable that describes an individual by placing them into a category or group.

• quantitative variable

• qualitative variable

Quantitative or qualitative?

Time in minutes spend studying

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

Quantitative or Qualitative?

personality type

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

Quantitative or Qualitative?

Area Code

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

A numerical measure that describes an aspect of a population.

• Parameter

• Statistic

A numerical measure that describes an aspect of a sample.

• parameter

• statistic

Which of the following properties does NOMINAL data have?

• Able to be ordered

• equal Intervals

• True Zero

• none

Which of the following properties does ORDINAL data have?

• can be ordered

• equal intervals

• true zero

• none