Statistics Vocabulary 1

The collection of all individuals that are of interest

Part of a population where no treatment or placebo is applied

Consist of data from the an entire population

Ordered arrangement of objects where order matters

The characteristic being measured in a statistical study

One event is shown to be a direct cause of another

The occurrence of one event does not affect the occurrence of another event

A subset of population

The data entry that occurs with the greatest frequency

An investigation of one or more characteristics where information is collected from people

The chances of an event occurring

A two-way frequency table

Where every individual of a population has the same chance of being selected

The occurrence of an event effects the occurrence of another event

Part of a population where a treatment is applied and observed

Represents all parts of a population

The science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, & interpreting data to make decisions.

Ordered arrangement of objects where order is not important

The data entry that lies in the middle of a data set when the set is ordered

The arithmetic average of a set of data

Not representative of a population, favors a wanted outcome

Describes how closely data varies about the mean

Describes the characteristics of normal distribution

A continuous distribution in a bell shaped curve where the mean, median, and mode are equal.

Mean, median, mode, & standard deviation