Section 3.1 Flashcards
(8 cards)
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Statistical Inferance
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The process of drawing conclusions about the entire population based on information in a sample
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Statistic
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A number that is computed from a data
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Parameter
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A number that describes some aspect of a population
4
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Point Estamite
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We use the statistics from a sample as a point estimate for a population parameter.
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Sampling Distribution
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The distribution of sample statistics computed for different sample of the same size population
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Center
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If samples are randomly selected, the sampling distribution will be centered around the population
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Shape
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Standard Error
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The standard deviation of the sample statistic
