Module 5 Vocabulary

A mathematical representation of a chance process is a probability model

Any subset of a population

What is any process that is repeatable and results in 1 of 2 or more well-defined outcomes each time it is repeated?

The use of a random number generator to generate outcomes that are consistent within a given probability model

A ________ is a subset of outcomes of the sample space

A ________ consists of observing a single outcome of a chance process

What is the sample space for flipping a coin

The value given by the frequency of the event divided by the total number of trials is the _________ of an event.

The mean (average) that is calculated from a sample

The entire collection of people, animals, plants, or things that someone is interested in learning about is the _____.

What should happen from a chance experiment

A model that assigns the same probability for all simple events of a sample space.

What is the process of drawing conclusions about population parameters using simple statistics?

The number that the relative frequencies get closer and closer to as more and more trials are performed.

The number of trials for which the event occurred in performing a fixed number of trials of a chance process is the ____

Probability based on trials from a chance event is experimental probability

A sample that is selected by a process that ensures that every thing has the same chance of being included in the sample

__________ is the number between 0-1 that measures the chance that an event will occur.

The set of all possible outcomes from a sample is the population