Chapters 1-4 Flashcards
(35 cards)
Population
Defined collection or group of objects
Census
Data is available for all objects in population
Sample
Subset of population
Variable
Any characteristic whose value may change from one object to another in the population
Empirical Data
Based on observation
Frequency
Number of times that a data value occurs in the data set
Relative Frequency
A proportion of time that the value occurs
Unimodal
1 peak
Bimodal
2 peaks
Multimodal
More than 2 peaks
Symmetric
Mirror image
Positively Skewed
Right stretched
Negatively Skewed
Left Stretched
Uniform
Straight
Truncated
Limited
Mode
Most frequent value that occurs in a data set
Quartiles
Divides data into four equal parts
Trimmed Means
Mean obtained form trimming off a% of the observations from “each” side of a data set
Range
Difference between the largest and smallest values
Standard Deviation
Square root of the average squared deviation from the mean
Variance
Square of the standard deviation
Event
Subset of outcomes contained in the sample space
Simple Event
Consists of exactly one outcome
Compound Event
Consists of more than one outcome