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1
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What is statistics?

A

Design, Description and Inference

2
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What is descriptive statistics?

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Graphs, tables and numerical summaries

3
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What is statistical inference?

A

Predictions made using data

4
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What are the two types of statistical analysis?

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description and inference

5
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What is a population?

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total set of subjects of interest in a study

6
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What is a subject?

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The entities that a study observes.

7
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What is a sample?

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subset of the population on which the study collects data

8
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What is inferential statistics?

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predictions about a population based on data from a sample

9
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What is a parameter?

A

numerical summary of the population

10
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What is a statistic?

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numerical summary of the sample data