specific midterm

Question 1

what visuals use single continuous?

Answer 1

density plot and histogram

Question 2

what visuals use single discrete?

Answer 2

bar plot

Question 3

what visuals use discrete and continuous?

Answer 3

box plot and violin plot

Question 4

what visuals use discrete and discrete?

Answer 4

proportion plot

Question 5

what visuals use continuous and continuous?

Answer 5

scatter plot

Question 6

what is normative research?

Answer 6

answers questions about how the world ought to be

Question 7

what is empiracal research?

Answer 7

answers questions about how the world is

Question 8

what is a confounding variable?

Answer 8

multiple thigns that oculd be effecting the results

Question 9

if skewed left use…

Answer 9

either mean or median

Question 10

if skewed right use…

Answer 10

mean

Question 11

what is affected by outliers?

Answer 11

mean

Question 13

what is the difference between a histogram and frequency distribution?

Answer 13

histogram shows count and frequency distribution shows probability of falling in a range

Question 14

if data is continuous w/ more than 10 categories use…

Answer 14

histogram

Question 15

z scores are used to…

Answer 15

find probability of how far above/below mean a value is

Question 16

what is postive kurtosis?

Answer 16

the tail is fatter

Question 17

what is negetive kurtosis?

Answer 17

the tail is thinner

Question 18

what is a frequency distribution?

Answer 18

how often each value appears in a single variable

Question 19

what is a summary statistics table?

Answer 19

provides descriptive statistics and can be used in any type of data