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1
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Sample

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A selection from the whole population

2
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Primary Data

A

Data which is collected for a specific investigation

3
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Standard Deviation

A

Square root of variance

4
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Qualitative Data

A

Data which can be organised into categories but cannot be given a numerical value

5
Q

Lower Quartile

A

The item one quarter of the way through when the data are put in order

6
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Continuous data

A

Data which can be measured and which can take any value within a certain range

7
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Discrete data

A

Data which can have only certain definite values

8
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Mode

A

The most common

9
Q

Median

A

The middle item when the data are in order

10
Q

Secondary data

A

Data which is already published and which may be accessed for many investigations

11
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Quantitative data

A

Data which can be measured or which has an exact numerical value

12
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Interquartile Range

A

Upper quartile - Lower quartile

13
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Upper quartile

A

The item three quarters of the way through when the data are put in order

14
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Standard deviation

A

Tells us how much the data spread out around the mean

15
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Mean

A

A measure of the average which uses all the data values

16
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Range

A

The difference between the largest and smallest data values

17
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Population

A

The whole group that we are interested in

18
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Interquartlie range

A

Tells us the spread of the middle 50% of the data values