M5 Topic A vocabulary review

A value that "lies outside" (is much smaller or larger than) most of the other values in a set of data

The "middle" value in the list of numbers that are listed in numerical order from smallest to largest

A probability near 1 indicates this kind of event.

A probability around 1/2 indicates an event that is neither unlikely nor likely,

What we expect to happen in probability

To add up all the numbers and then divide by the number of numbers

The result of a single observation of an experiment

The number which appears most often in a set of numbers

A type of simple histogram-like chart used in statistics for relatively small data sets where values fall into a ....

An event that cannot happen.  

This tells you the likelihood of an event happening

A probability near 0 indicates this kind of event.

Any subset of a population

A scale, starting at (impossible) and ending at (certain).

Chosen as if by chance from some specified distribution such that selection of a large set of these numbers reproduces..

Any entire collection of people, animals, plants, or things that someone is interested in learning about is POPULATION

A set of possible outcomes resulting from a particular experiment.

Observing a single outcome of a chance process. Any activity in which there is uncertainty about which of two or more...

The number of times the data value occurs in an event

The difference between the lowest and highest values

An event that has a probability of 1. The event will definitely happen.