Basic Statistics: Preliminary Review for Prospective AP Stat Students (Some/All Preliminary Terms from the textbook The Practice of Statistics Third Edition, some definitions may be mine, others are from the textbook or from Quizlet) Statistics ? the practice of collecting data, and drawing inferences and conclusions from it Data ? numbers with a context Exploratory Data Analysis ? using graphs and numerical summaries to describe variables in a data set and their relationship Probability ? the study of chance behavior Population ? the entire body of which a study wants to represent Sample ? part of the population, hopefully representative of it
AP Stat Preliminary Terms
Basic Statistics: Preliminary Review for Prospective AP Stat Students (Some/All Preliminary Terms from the textbook The Practice of Statistics Third Edition, some definitions may be mine, others are from the textbook or from Quizlet) Statistics ? the practice of collecting data, and drawing inferences and conclusions from it Data ? numbers with a context Exploratory Data Analysis ? using graphs and numerical summaries to describe variables in a data set and their relationship Probability ? the study of chance behavior Population ? the entire body of which a study wants to represent Sample ? part of the population, hopefully representative of it
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