ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS Flashcards
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IT INVOLVES THE COLLECTION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA TO SUPPORT ENGINEERING DECISIONS
ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS
IT IS A CHARACTERISTICS OR INFORMATION, USUALLY NUMERICAL, THAT ARE COLLECTED THROUGH OBSERVATION
DATA
IT IS A SET OF VALUES OF QUALITATIVE OR QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES ABOUT ONE OR MORE PERSONS OR OBJECTS
DATA
ITIS A SINGLE VALUE OF A SINGLE VARIABLE
DATUM
USUALLY DEALS WITH SAMPLE ESPECIALLY WHEN A POPULATION IS TOO BIG
STATISICS
THE COMPLETE SET OF ALL TH ELEMENTS TO BE STUDIED
POPULATION
CAN BE A GROUP OF EXISTING OBJECTS OR A HYPOTHETICAL AND POTENTIALLY INFINITE GROUP OF OBJECTS CONCEIVED AS A GENERALIZATION FROM EXPERIENCE
STATISTICAL POPULATION
MEANS IMAGINE OR SUGGESTED BUT NOT NECESSARILY REAL OR TRUE
HYPOTHETICAL
MEANS LIMITLESS OR ENDLESS
INFINITE
IS A SUBSET OF A POPULATION
SAMPLE
COLLECTING DATA FROM EVERY MEMBER OF THE POPULATION
CENSUS
KNOWN AS A COMPLETE ENUMARATION, WHICH MEANS A COMPLETE COUNT
CENSUS
TWO TYPES OF DATA
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE
TWO TYPES OF QUANTITATIVE
DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS
THERE IS ONLY FINITE NUMBER
DISCRETE
A MEASURE OF SOMETHING
CONTINUOUS
FOUR LEVELS OF MEASUREMENT
NOMINAL, ORDINAL, INTERVAL AND RATIO
USED TO LABEL VARIABLES WITHOUT PROVIDING ANY QUANTITATIVE VALUE
NOMINAL
THE VALUES FOLLOW A NATURAL ORDER DIFFERENCES ARE MEANINGLESS
ORDINAL
MEASURED ALONG A SCALE, IN WHICH EACH POINT IS PLACED AT EQUAL DISTANCE FROM ONE ANOTHER
INTERVAL
HAS AN EQUAL AND DEFINITIVE RATIO BETWEEN EACH DATA
ABSOLUTE ZERO IS TREATED AS A POINT OF ORIGIN
RATIO
TWO TYPES OF FIELD STATISTICS
DESCRIPTIVE AND INFERENTAL STATISTICS
CONCERNED WITH COLLECTING AND DESCRIBING A SET OF DATA TO YIELD A MEANINGFUL RESULT
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
concerned with the analysis of a subset of data leading to predictions or inferences about the entire set of data.
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS