Discussion Flashcards
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Scientific body that deals with collection, organization or presentation, analysis, and interpretation
statistic
Steps in reasearch
Collection
Organization or presentation
Analysis
Interpretation
Variable attained through counting
Discrete variable
Value dependent to the outcome of a well-defined random event or experiment
Random variable
Experiment has only countable or countably infinite number of outcomes
Discrete random variable
Set of all possible outcomes
Sample space
Infinitely many uncountable events
Continuous variable
Outcome can take an uncountably infinite number of possible outcomes
Continuous random variable
Terminologies in statistics
Population
Sample
Parameter
Statistic
Data
Variable
Large collection
Denoted by N
population
Small portion or part of population
sample
Numerical or nominal characteristics of a population
Referred as true or actual value
parameter
Estimate of parameter
statistic
Information under study
data
Values that manifest concepts or attributes
Qualitative data
Numerical data
Quantitative data
Property of a population makes the members different from one another
variable