Week 2 Flashcards
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BSE: Goal is to understand a population based on:
Goal is to understand a population based on a sample
BSE: Descriptive statistics have 3 branches including
- Distribution
- Measures of Central Tendency: mean, median, mode
- Measures of variability: how far do things vary from the mean
BSE: What is the difference between a population and sample?
- Population: The collection of units to which we want to generalize a set of findings or a statistical model (the whole)
- Sample: A smaller (but hopefully representative) collection of units from a population used to determine truths about that population
BSE: Mean and Standard Deviation are obtained from a sample but are used to:
Mean and Standard Deviation are obtained from a sample but are used to estimate the mean and SD of the population
BSE: What does Measuring the ‘Fit’ of the model mean?
- The mean is a model of what happens in the real world: the typical score
- It is not a perfect representation of the data
- How can we assess how well the mean represents reality?
BSE: If have a large standard deviation, describe what will happen to the distribution
- Large standard deviation = wide distribution
BSE: If have a small standard deviation describe what happens to the distribution
- If have a small standard deviation the distribution is narrow (and tall?)
- ideal, want distribution to be close to the measure of central tendency
BSE: The normal distribution ideally has a _______________ mean, median, mode
The normal distribution ideally has the same mean, median, mode
BSE: What is a Gaussian distribution?
- Another name for normal distribution
BSE: What percentage of a sample lies within 1 standard deviation from the mean/median/mode?
68.3% should lie -1 SD and + 1 SD from the mean/median/mode
BSE: What percentage of the sample lies between the 2 SD from mean/median/mode?
95% for -2 SD & + 2 SD
BSE: What percentage of the sample lies between the 3 SD from mean/median/mode? F
~ 99% for - 3 SD & + 3 SD
BSE: T/F can have more than 1 mode for a sample
True, can have a singular mode, bimodal, mulitmodal
BSE: T/F: Normal distribution has a skew
- False, normally mean, median, mode
- Skew is symmetry of distribution
BSE: What is skew? What is + or negative skew?
- Skew is asymmetry of distribution
- Positive skew: scored bunched at low values with the tail pointing to high values
- Negative skew: scored bunched at high values with the tail pointing to low values
BSE: What is highest in a positive skew? Why?
Mean > median > mode
B/c the outliers are pulling/increasing the value of the mean
BSE: What is normally highest in a negative skew?
Mode > Median > Mean
BSE: What is Kurtosis?
A distribution with an abnormal distribution
BSE: What does bimodal distribution suggest?
- Suggests 2 populations within a sample
- i.e. “students who understand neuro vs students who do not understand neuro”
BSE: Level of Measurement-Give examples of Ratio
- Height
- Weight
- BP
- Kelvin
BSE: Levels of Measurement-give examples of nominal
- Variables that have two or more categories with no intrinsic order
- I.e. gender, blood type, types of housing
BSE: What is the best central tendency measure for nominal data?
Mode
BSE: What is the best central tendency measure for skewed or ordinal data?
Median
BSE: What is ordinal data?
- Variables with two or more categories
- “How much do you like my sweater?” “Not very much,” “it’s okay,”Yes, a lot”
- But not able to place a definitive value on