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| The collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. |
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| Organizing and summarizing data. |
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| Formal methods for drawing conclusions from "good" data. |
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| Collection of persons, things, or objects under study. |
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| A characteristic of the whole population, it is a numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a population. |
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| A portion(subset) of the larger population used to gain information about the population. |
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| A number that represents a property of the sample. An estimate of a population parameter. |
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| A sample that contains the characteristics of the population. |
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| A characteristic or measurement that can be determined for each member of a population. Notated by capital letters. |
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| Variables that take on values with equal units (Weight in pounds and Time in hours). |
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| Variables that place the person or thing into a category(G for gender - F,M) |
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| Actual values of the data. May be numbers or words. |
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