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| A collection of procedures for gathering data and analyzing info to help people make decisions when faced with uncertainty. |
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| Involves Collection, organization, and presentation of data. Purpose is to summarize & report info. Analyzes data the find and interpret pattern. |
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| Involves generalizing from sample to population in a systematic way. Purpose is to make estimates, decisions, predictions, or generalizations about a larger data set ideas or a subset. |
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| All possible observations of the populations of interest |
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| Group of subjects; should be representative of the entire population. |
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| Numerical characteristics of a population |
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| Numerical characteristic of a sample |
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| Characteristic or trait of interest(age, income, gender, etc) |
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| Object upon which date is collected |
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| Estimate or prediction or other generalization about a population based on information contained in a sample |
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| Numerical data, can be counted |
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| Non-numerical data, classes or categories |
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