Chapter Two

What are principles or standards we consider important?

This model provides a systematic process for making decision.

A ___________ is a representation of an object or system.

What is an association between two or more events?

What is the factor of interest within an experiment?

Testable idea or explanation that leads to a scientific investigation.

Information that is gathered during an experiment usually in numeric form.

Group of individuals or events selected to represent a population.

A model that shows maps, charts, or pictures of an area is a __________ model.

What is the relative arrangement of the members of a statistical population?

What is a procedure designed to test a hypothesis?

Logical statement about what will happen if the hypothesis is correct.

What is the number obtained by adding the data of a certain characteristic?

Chance that something will happen is called __________.

Which method is a series of associations used to answer questions?

What is a group of similar things that a scientist is interested in learning about?

___________ measures the effectiveness of an experiment by its process.

A model that is verbal or graphical and explains how a system works is what kind of model?

____________ measures the results of an experiment and whether they are consistent.

A ___________ model provides a three dimensional version that can be touched.

The probability of an unwanted outcome is called ________.

Which group receives the variable within an experiment?

Science comes from the Latin verb scire meaning what?

While making an observation we use _______ senses to gather information.

The collection and classification of data that is in numeric form.

The number of objects or events sampled but is too small to represent a population.

Method that is a series of steps used to answer questions.

This model uses equations that represent the way a system or process works.

It is a ___________ distribution when a bell curve is show on a bar graph.

The __________ group is the one that does not receive the variable within an experiment.