Comprehensive Statistics Course Review

__is the art and science ofdrawing conclusions about a population by observing only a subset.

The symbol μ represents ________________________________________.

_______ is theproportion (written as a decimal) of how many times the data occur in the sample.

Itis possible to use statistics to predict, with certainty, the outcome for anindividual.

Which of the following cannot be a probability?

Data is numbers in ____________________.

Thesymbol for the standard deviation of a sample is _______________________.

Statistics is the study of ___________________ and _____________________.

The probability of not having rain today is 0.43. What is the probability of having rain?

Meanis a measure of ________________________________.

The symbol σ represents ________________________________________.

The goal of a good study is to determine ___________________________.

Outliersare extreme values that should be removed from the data.

The_______________________ of a distribution answers the question “What is thetypical value?”

Standard deviation is a measure of ________________________________.

A_____________________________________ distribution is modeled by N(0,1).

Adistribution will often have two centers if it is______________________________.

_____________________________ is the tendency of a survey toproduce untrue results.

The number of times a value is observed in a data set is its __________________________.

The_____ allows us to define averageness by saying that 68% of data falls between -1 and +1 s.d

If you total all the probabilities in a curve together, you should get 100.

The probability of having a firedrill is 0.07. What's the prob of NOT having a firedrill?

The probability in a continuous probability distribution is the area under the curve.