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Statistics
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Mathematics
10th Grade
06/25/2011

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Term
Primary data
Definition

Data you have collected yourself

 

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Seccondry data
Definition
Collected by someone else
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Qualitative data
Definition

Data that uses words to describe it- not numbers

e.g: Favorite pizza topping

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Quantitative data
Definition

Anything that can be measured with a number

E.g: Heights

Quantitative data is either discrete or continuous

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Discrete data
Definition

Data that can be measured exactly

E.g:Goals scored in a football match

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Continuous data
Definition

Data that can take any value in an inteval

E.g:The height of a teenager  

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Mode
Definition
Most common value
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Median
Definition
Middle value
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Mean
Definition
Total of items/number of items
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Range
Definition
Difference between the largest and smallest values
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simple random sampling
Definition
where every member of a population has an equal chance of being chosen
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Stratified sampling
Definition
Gives different groups in the sample an amount of representation thats proportional to its population size
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Cumulative frequency
Definition
Adding up the frequency as you go along
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Frequency density
Definition
=frequency/class width
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And rule
Definition
P(a and b)=P(a) x P(b)
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Or rule
Definition
P(a or b)=P(a) + P(b)
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