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Chapter 1 vocab
Describing Data
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Mathematics
Undergraduate 1
09/09/2009
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Term
Descriptive Statistics
 Definition
Numbers that describe data.
Term
Statistic Inference
 Definition
procedure of drawing conclusion about the population based on the information from the sample.
Term
Parameters
 Definition
Numbers that describe the population (usually unknown)
Term
Statistic
 Definition
Number calculated from data (known; used to estimate the parameter)
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range
 Definition
difference between the largest observation and the smallest.
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