Statistics Quiz Review

A person who gathers information and studies trends is a ______.

• statistician

• librarian

• artist

• chef

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.3

______ statistics gathers and presents existing data.

• descriptive

• inferential

• predictive

• exploratory

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

CCSS.HSS.ID.B.5

Inferential statistics takes that data and uses it to make ______.

• predictions

• descriptive summaries

• data collection

• raw data analysis

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.5

CCSS.HSS.MD.A.2

CCSS.HSS.MD.A.3

The ______ is who or what you are gathering data from.

• population

• sample

• variable

• dataset

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

Most often, statisticians just look at a ______ rather than the entire population.

• sample

• census

• survey

• experiment

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

The ______ is the average of a set of numbers or results.

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The median is the ______ number of the data set.

• middle

• first

• last

• average

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The ______ is the most common number in the data set.

• mode

• median

• mean

• range

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

Data can come from a ______ or asking a group of people questions.

• survey

• book

• experiment

• observation

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.4

Statisticians can also do their own ______ to collect data.

• experiments

• surveys

• interviews

• observations

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3