Chapter 1 32 Terms Crossword

A group of subjects that are similar in the ways that might affect the outcome of the experiment.
Procedure used in experiments whereby the subject doesn't know whether he or she is receiving a treatment or a placebo
Collection of date from every element in a population
A situation that occurs when the effects from two or more variables cannot be distinguished from each other
Dividing the population area into sections then randomly selecting a few of those sections, then choosing all the members from those selected sections
a study in which date are observed, measures and collected at one point in time.
Sampling in which data are selected because they are readily available
numbers or information describing some characteristic
Data resulting from infinitely many possible values that correspond to some continuous scale that covers a range of values without gaps,interruptions, or jumps
data with the property that the number of values is either a finite number or a countable number, which results in 0 possibilities, or 1 possibility, or 2 possibilities, and so on
Procedure used in an experiment whereby the subject doesn't know whether he or she is receiving a treatment or placebo, and the person administering the treatment also does not know
Level of measurement of data; characterizes data that an be arranged in order and for which differences between data values are meaningful
complete and entire collection of elements to be studied
Measures characteristics of a population
Study of subjects in identified groups sharing common factors, with data collected in the future
Subset of a population
Measured characteristic of a sample
Collection of methods for planning experiments