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- some characteristic parameter,
- usually designated by a letter,
- can take on different values
- predetermined or random |
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| In the statistical sense, what includes every item in the zone of consideration? |
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| What is a portion of the population taken under study to predict or infer something about the population? |
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| Measures of Central Tendency |
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| What are used to reduce a mass of data to a single number which describes the "average," the center, or the "most typical" value of this data? |
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- Average (known as)
- Measure of central tendency
- Best known & most used |
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| What is the definition for Mean? |
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Value of the middle item when the data size is odd
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average of the values of the two middle items when the data size is even
middle value/no formula
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| What is the definition for Median? |
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- Most likely value of a set of observations
- Value that occurs most frequently
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| What is the definition for Mode? |
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