Math Quiz

The science of collecting, organizing, summarizing' and analyzing information in order to draw conclusions, or answer questions. Provides a measure of confidence in any conclusion.

An entire group of individuals being studied

Person or object that make up a population that is being studied

A subset of the population being studied

The numerical summary of a sample

Consist of Organizing and Summarizing data

Uses methods that take a result from a sample, extend it to the population, and measure the reliability of the result

A numerical summary of a population

The characteristic of the individual to be measured or observed.

The process of using chance to select individuals from a population to be included in the sample

A sample of size n from a population of size N is obtained through simple random sampling, if every possible sample of size n has a equally likely chance of occuring

If the result of the sample are not representative of the population

Error that results from using a sample to estimate information about a population. This type of error occurs BC a sample gives incomplete information about a population

Lists each category of data and the number of occurrence for each category of data

Constructed by drawing rectangles for each class of data. The height of each rectangle is the frequency or relative frequency of the class. The width of each rectangle is the same and the rectangles touch

Based on the deviation about the mean (Measure of deviations are meant to describe how spread out data are)

A measure of variation of values about the mean. It is a type of average deviation of values from the mean.

Standardized value- the number of standard deviation that a given value,x, is above or below the mean.