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6335406914A statistic that is the defined as the 75th percentileQ30
6335413187Cluster sampleSeparating the population into heterogeneous groups and sampling an entire cluster.1
6335413188Stratified sampleSeparating the population into homogeneous groups and sampling a small portion of each group.2
6335417304non response biasNot being able to reach individuals who were randomly chosen to be in your sample3
6335420424biasA method of sampling that consistently over- or underestimates the value you want to estimate4
6335422129voluntary response biasObtaining a sample by putting out a general invitation and using whoever chooses to respond5
6335424689How to increase powerincrease alpha, sample size and effect size6
6335427350How to decrease biasno can do7
6335430238How to decrease variabilityincrease sample size8
6335439685Left skewed distributioninsert image of histogram9
6335441931Right skewed distributioninsert image of boxplot10
6335448241Type I errorincorrectly rejecting the null11
6335450003Type II errorincorrectly not finding evidence for Ha12
6335450004Powercorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis13
6335471792The median of the first half of the dataQ114
6335494151mutually exclusive eventsEvents that have no common outcomes; cannot occur together15
6335494152conditional probabilityProbability that one event occurs knowing another one already occurred16
6335494153Independent eventsThe occurrence of one event does not change the probability of the other event17
6335510258sample proportion18
6335512442population proportion19
6335514265sample mean20
6335514266population mean21
6335518830The 10% rule allows us tocalculate the standard deviation of the sampling distribution22
6335523585The Large Counts condition allows us to concludethe shape of the sampling distribution of p hat is approximately normal23
6335526983The Central Limit Theorem allows us to concludethe sampling distribution of x bar is approximately normal when the sample size is at least 30.24
6335540241Chi-Square for homogeneity answers this question...Is the specified distribution of the variable correct?25
6335540242Chi Square for independence answers this question....Is the distribution of the variable the same for all the populations?26
6335544989Chi Square goodness of fit answers this question ...Is there an association between the two variables?27
6335578842Degrees of freedom for a t-testn - 128
6335587125Degrees of Freedom for chi-square goodness of fit testnumber of categories - 129
6335597956Degrees of freedom for chi-square test for homogeneity(number of rows - 1)(number of columns - 1)30
6335610881How to describe a graphical display of one variable quantitative dataShape Outliers Center Spread31
6335615496How to display one variable quantitative databoxplot stemplot histogram dotplot32
6335620073How to display two variable quantitative datascatterplot33
6335627663When the p-value < alphayey! We found convincing evidence for Ha34
6335633204When the p-value is > alphawe're sad because we didn't find evidence of what we are looking for.35
6335644349Experimentimposes a treatment on subject and measures variables of interest36
6335644350Observational Studymeasures variables of interest with no influence on subject37
6335673440What happens to the standard deviation of a random variable when you add a constant?Nada38
6335673441What happens to the mean of a random variable when you multiply by a constant.It increases/decreases by a factor of that constant.39
6386129125How to describe a graphical display of two variable quantitative dataDirection Outliers Form Strength40
6386132171How to display categorical dataBar graph Pie Chart41

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