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17 Cards in this Set
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What is data at the Ordinal level of measurement?
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Data at this level are qualitative or quantitative.
Data at this level can be arranged in order or ranked, but differences between data entries are not meaningful. |
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What is data t the Nominal level?
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It is qualitative only
At this level, data is categorized using names, labels, or qualities. No mathematic computations can be made at this level. |
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What are the 4 levels of measurement?
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Nominal (lowest)
Ordinal Interval Ratio (highest) |
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What is qualitative data?
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Data that consist of attributes, labels, or non numerical entries.
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What is quantitative data?
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Data that consist of numerical measurements or counts.
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What are 2 types of data?
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Qualitative data & quantitative data
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What are the basic tools in the study of Inferential Statistics?
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Probability
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What is Inferential statistics?
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The branch of statistics that involves using a sample to draw conclusions about a population. A basic tool in the study of Inferential statistics is probability.
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What are the 2 major branches of statistics?
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Descriptive Statistics & Inferential Statistics.
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What is Descriptive Statistics?
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The branch of statistics that involve the organization. Summarization, and display of data.
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What is a statistic?
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A numerical description of a sample characteristic.
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What is the definition of statistics?
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The science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data in order to make decisions.
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What is a parameter?
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A numerical description of a population characteristic.
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What does data consist of?
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Information from observations, counts, measurements or responses.
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What are the names of the 2 data sets?.
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Population & sample
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What is a population?
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The collection of ALL outcomes, responses, measurements, or counts that are of interest.
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What is a sample?
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A subset or part of a population.
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