Quantitative Literacy Crossword

The science of collecting, organizing, and interpreting data or the data that describe or summarize something
A sample that is convenient to select, such as people who happen to be in the same classroom
The group of sample members who do not receive the treatment being tested
Lacks the active ingredients of treatment being tested in a study, but is identical in appearance to the treatment
An observational study that resembles an experiment because the sample naturally divides into two or more groups
Used to describe a confidence interval that is likely to contain the true population parameter
Data that describes qualities or categories
Data that represent counts or measurments
What we most commonly call the average value
The middle value in the sorted data set
The most common value (or group of values) in a distribution
A data value that is much higher or much lower than almost all the other values
Describes how widely data values are spread out about the center of a distribution
The difference between the highest and lowest data values
The ____________________ for a data set consists of the following five numbers: low value, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, high value
Is a graph in which each point represents the values of two variables
Exists between two variables when higher values of one variable consistently go with higher values of another or when higher values of one variable consitently go with lower values of another
A bar graph for quantitative data categories. The bars have a natural order and the bar widths have a specific meaning
Shows the data value for each category as a dot, and the dots are connected with lines
A line chart in which the horizontal axis represents time
The first column in a basic frequency table lists all the __________ of data.
Any item or quantity that can vary or take on different values