Key Terms Crossword

– a mistake causing results that are not representative of the population
-measures of center refer to the summary measures used to describe the most “typical” value in a set of data
-average
- middle score when listed in numerical order
- score that occurs most often
- a census occurs when everyone -in the population is contacted
- Information about a product or p-rocess, usually in numerical form
- Data that are far away -from most of the data points
- The difference between the greatest data element and the least data element
- A subset, or portion, of the population
- The spread of a distribution refers to the variability of the data
- an investigation on one or more characteristic of a population, either through census or sampling
- A numerical description of a sample characteristic
- The science of collecting, organizing, and interpreting data in order to make decisions
- The entire set of items from which data can be selected
- Events are random when individual outcomes are uncertain
- A statistic indicating the proportion of successes in a particular sample
- The value in the confidence interval that says how accurate we believe our estimate of the parameter to be
- Choose a simple random sample of size n from any population with mean µ and standard deviation σ
- The average of the squares of the deviations of the observations from their mean