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Statistics Essentials

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What is a population in statistics?

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The entire set of individuals, items, or measurements that share a common property and are the subject of a statistical study.

What is a sample?

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A subset of a population selected to represent it for analysis.

Why do we use samples instead of populations?

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Because measuring the entire population is often impractical, costly, or impossible.

What is a parameter?

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A numerical value that describes a characteristic of a population (e.g., μ for mean, σ for standard deviation).

What is a statistic (in this context)?

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A numerical value that describes a characteristic of a sample (e.g., x̄, s).

What is descriptive statistics?

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Methods for summarizing and describing the main features of a dataset.

What is inferential statistics?

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Methods for drawing conclusions about a population from sample data.

Define the mean.

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The arithmetic average: the sum of values divided by the number of values.

Define the median.

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The middle value of an ordered dataset; if even count, the average of the two middle values.

Define the mode.

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The value or values that occur most frequently in a dataset.

When is the median preferred over the mean?

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When the data are skewed or contain outliers, because the median is more robust.

What is the range?

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The difference between the maximum and minimum values in a dataset.

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